“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? Is it a function of political affiliation? Of […]
Month: 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 by “facts” is being taken over by “data.” […]
“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 people for their garbage posts: “Delete your account,” […]
“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 as we furiously stir the speculation, breathlessly thicken […]
“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 mean you have a career. It means you […]
“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 recent years, just when they need it most. […]
“…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 of truth: impartial, verifiable knowledge. But the movement […]
“… 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 it comes to race and identity. When looking […]
“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, joblessness and, more often than we’d like to […]
“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 project those values into a nation of 320 […]
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