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The Left Thinks Muslims in the U.S. Have it Bad. Really, Really Bad.

Posted on February 8, 2017 by mupetblast

  A new Rasmussen poll highlights the divergence between left and right on perceptions of who’s persecuted. And just, wow. From the data, one gets the impression that it’s the allegedly cold-hearted right more alarmed about the plight of religious … Continue reading →

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Atheists: Not So Angry After All

Posted on April 21, 2015 by mupetblast

  You mad, bro? According to a new study, it’s a myth that atheists are an especially angry bunch. (Grumpy? Maybe.) Atheists are often portrayed in the media and elsewhere as angry individuals. Although atheists disagree with the pillar of … Continue reading →

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Conservatives respect atheists less

Posted on August 6, 2014 by David Hume

This clip by S. E. Cupp is making the rounds. I often find Cupp to be glib, so it’s no surprise that I disagree with many of the details of what she is saying. In particular it struck me as … Continue reading →

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Are the Republicans the socially conservative party?

Posted on November 27, 2012 by David Hume

Charles Murray ruminates on why Asian Americans are not Republicans. Many of his observations are broadly consonant with my supposition that Asian American disidentification with the Republican party has to do with cultural markers (i.e., Asian Americans have become less … Continue reading →

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Japan has always been secular

Posted on April 29, 2012 by David Hume

In an otherwise fascinating column on Japan’s peculiar demographics, Ross Douthat presents one misleading fact: Japan is facing such swift demographic collapse, Eberstadt’s essay suggests, because its culture combines liberalism and traditionalism in particularly disastrous ways. On the one hand, … Continue reading →

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On the Economics of the Pill

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Interesting report here in the New York Times: The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill – … Continue reading →

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The double standard

Posted on March 10, 2011 by David Hume

A few years ago Markos Moulitas wrote a book, American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right. This is in a long tradition of demonization of American Christian conservatives by the Left. All’s fair … Continue reading →

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Birth Control and the Prevention of Abortion

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Wherever you stand on the abortion debate, the idea that access to contraception does not reduce the number of abortions ought to seem, to say the least, counter-intuitive, yet that’s what Kirsten Powers ends up arguing in this Daily Beast … Continue reading →

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Europe, the big five

Posted on January 15, 2011 by David Hume

The New York Times Magazine has a Europe-themed edition. I thought it would be interesting to look at the five big Western European nations in Google Data Explorer.

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Don’t be shocked by polls

Posted on October 19, 2010 by David Hume

You all know about the issues of weighting samples to achieve representativeness. In polling this is an art. But even if you get to representativeness, depending on the average sample sizes the polls themselves will exhibit a distribution of outcomes about … Continue reading →

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