Of all the David Frosts, I am the David Frostiest.
At the Washington Monthly there’s a book review by Chris Mooney of two recent works about the psychological and biological differences between liberals and conservatives. The most rock-solid finding, simply because it has been shown so many times in so many different studies, is that liberals and conservatives have different personalities. Again and again, when …
Folks at Vox (“Rich People are Jerks, Explained“) have written up two domains of scientific research about wealthy Americans. One area of research shows that the preferences of the wealthy are more influential on politics, actual governance and policy than the preferences of non-wealthy people. Here’s a link to the main academic paper Vox used as a …
There’s been some buzz after Nate Silver criticized some opinion-makers and pundits as being essentially non-empirical and, therefore, no better than bullshitters. Leon Wieseltier, of The New Republic, seems offended: [Silver] does not recognize the calling of, or grasp the need for, public reason; or rather, he cannot conceive of public reason except as an …