“What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime?”
What determines whether someone feels sympathy or scorn for the victim of a crime?...
Monthly Archives: July 2016
“The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held by ‘facts’ is being taken over by ‘data'”
The era of the fact is coming to an end: the place once held...
“Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll”
Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames...
“Seldom in a modern presidential campaign has the selection of a running mate mattered as little as it does for [Clinton]”
Here’s what we journalists don’t like to tell you or even admit to ourselves...
“Having a title in front of your name is important, but it does not mean you have a career”
Having a title in front of your name is important, but it does not...
“Though many working-class whites have lost any ties to church, they haven’t necessarily abandoned their faith”
…church attendance has fallen substantially among the members of the white working class in...
“…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence”
Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
“… one of the most predictive variables for a place becoming more Republican has been the number of people ethnically identifying as ‘American’…”
Something real has been percolating over the past decade in the Republican base when...
“Mr. Trump…offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains”
In the white working class, there are far too many wolves: heroin, broken families,...
“Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America…became dysfunctional”
Somewhere in recent years, the GOP’s engagement with modern America and how to best...