Just the social facts, ma'am

 In 1965, there was a Harris poll of college students.  One of the questions involved showing people a list of authors and asking if any wer...

 As I mentioned in my last post, I have a number of new posts planned (dealing with confidence in institutions and the relation between coll...

It has been a long time since my last post.  I've been away for the past couple of weeks, at the International Sociological Association ...

 I had two previous posts on voting preferences among college students in the 1940s-70s.  This post will look at faculty at two elite univer...

My last two posts were on polls of college student voting from the 1940s-70s.  I intended my next post to be on polls of faculty voting, but...

 My last post said that there were large moves towards the Democrats at several elite universities between 1960 and 1964.  According to the ...

In a review of a biography of William F. Buckley, Louis Menand wrote: " In 1948, eighty-eight per cent [of Yale students] supported Tho...