Just the social facts, ma'am

I've seen a few things on social media saying that the Republicans stole the 2024 presidential election, but didn't pay much attention to them until a recent post by Andrew Gelman pointed to an article in Votebeat by Carter Walker and Jessica Huesman.

I'd heard about a decline of self-reported happiness in recent years, but I hadn't looked at the numbers until I saw a post by Noah Smith a few days ago.

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Gregory Conti and Aaron Sibarium wrote "as race and gender preferences became more overt and widespread, so did the grievances of young white men, who saw their professional opportunities diminish."

A few years ago, I said that beliefs about changes in crime rates were affected both by actual conditions and partisanship, but that the effect of partisanship seemed to be bigger for Republicans.

Between March 2020 and December 2022, several polls asked people how much trust they had in Dr Anthony Fauci: a great deal, a fair amount, not much, or not at all.

Ross Douthat recently had a column about "elite failure," which began by discussing Paul Ehrlich and his warnings about overpopulation.

A few days ago, Paul Krugman wrote that there has been a vicious circle in which rich people influence government policy to favor their interests, which allows them to get richer, which gives them more influence.....

A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times published an op-ed by Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell, and Courtney Elliott called "The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week."

In 1999, Gallup asked "Overall, do you think the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased or disappointed by the way the United States has turned out?"

In May, the Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels "as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide."

In a recent post, I found that people who believed that they were treated with "less courtesy or respect than other people" were more likely to vote for Trump in 2016 (and probably 2020).

Last year I had a post about the claim that men don't have as many friends as they used to.

It's often said that a large part of Donald Trump's support represents a reaction to the disdain that ordinary people receive from the educated middle classes.

In January, I had a post about why Trump was renominated in 2024.

I wanted to write a post on opinion about redistricting, but there are only a few survey questions on the subject.

People are more optimistic about the future when their party is in power.

Clarence Thomas recently gave a speech at the University of Texas--Austin that's attracted a lot of attention.

A few weeks ago the New York Times published a story on people who think that women should not have the right to vote, and more recently they featured it in an e-mail to subscribers.

In my last post, I wrote about the rise of Donald Trump.

One popular explanation of the rise and survival of Donald Trump is summarized by Senator Elissa Slotkin, who said that some of her constituents tell her "it’s like I’m a Stage 4 cancer patient.

My last post looked at subjective income: whether you think your income is above average, average, or below average.

Many people have observed that in the last 5 or 10 years, a gap has emerged between public ratings of economic conditions and standard measures like unemployment and inflation: people say that the economy is bad even when the statistics look pretty good.

A lot of the commentary after Paul Ehrlich's death said that his ideas were popular among liberals and/or "elites."

In late 2022, I had a couple of posts about perceptions of moral conditions.

Adrian Vermeule, a professor at Harvard Law School, writes that "the Supreme Court faces a serious problem in the court of public opinion . . . .