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 The New York Times recently had an analysis of changes in county-level voting between 2012 and 2024.  As they summarized it, Trump's v...

In December, I had a post criticizing the idea t hat school closures during the Covid years were imposed by "elites." I observed t...

 A few weeks ago, I had a post about  liberal and conservative confidence in medicine, science, and education.  There was a gradual divergen...

A negative view of universities, especially "elite" universities, has been part of Republican politics for a long time, but has in...

 In an op-ed in the Washington Post , Mitch Daniels said that higher education "has failed to deliver value: Its prices rocketed upward...

 A few days ago, Andrew Gelman  observed that views on scientific authority have become more politically polarized in over the last few deca...

 In my last post, I forgot to mention that in 2004 they asked whether American trade policy towards other countries was fair or unfair.  Peo...