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Previous Posts
- Baseball and Originalism: Opening Day, 2023
- Why Red v. Blue Became Me v. You: Polarization, Part II
- How Red v. Blue Became Me v. You: Polarization, Part I
- The Covid Experience Reveals How Weird America Is
- Americans Continue to Associate. For What Cause?
- Slavery, Capitalism, and Reparations
- Opening Day, 2022: Still Unresolved
- No Peace, No Justice
- The Right’s Reaction to Americans’ Leftward Shift: A Supreme Example
- The Culture Has Moved Left… So the Right has Mobilized
- Overcoming Distance and Embracing Place: Personal Ties in the Age of Persistent and Pervasive Communication
- The Death Surge Before Covid-19: Who, What, and Why.
- Women Rising: Life Stories from the Last Century
- Whither Big Tech, or When Novelties Become (Regulated) Necessities
- Opening Day, 2021: Baseball’s Crises
- First Takes on the Election #2: What About the Polls?
- The Political Census
- First Takes on the Election: #1, What Happened?
- Now for Something Different: Is Sex Wilting?
- Explaining Trump: The Next-to-Last Time (I Hope)
- Covid-19: Exceptionalism with a Vengeance
- Is Left Cancel Culture Cancelling Left Culture?
- BLM Protests: Surprisingly Successful… So Far. Why?
- White Liberals’ Political Correctness Could Help Trump Get Re-Elected
- Asteroidal Change or Glacial Change? Peering Over the Covid-19 Horizon
- Opening Day Under Covid-19: Do Fans Matter?
- COVID-19: Balancing Short-Term Solutions and Long-Term Effects. Are There Lessons from 1918?
- Bernie: The Left is Still Waiting for the Proletariat Vote
- AG Barr says attacks on religion are loosening the hounds of hell. Are they?
- One Year Down, One to Go: Still Explaining Trump
- Lead, Brains, and Behavior: Sociology Meets Biology
- The Year’s Racial Flare-Ups: Signs of the Future or Signs of a Last Gasp?
- [Bracket] Political Commentary [End Bracket]
- Parental Love, Opportunity Markets, and Inequality
- Brain Twisting, or How We Evolved
- Opening Day, 2019: Data-Crunching, Inequality, and Baseball
- Fixing Inequality: More Opportunity is Not the Answer
- A Christian America? The Talk and the Walk
- Shareholder Value: Law, Inequality, and the Doubting Justice
- After the Election: More Polarization or Less?
- Searching for the Authentic Self (… and Finding Trump)
- The Politics-Religion Vortex Spins
- Loneliness Epidemic: An End to the Story?
- Get by with a Little Help from…
- Feel-Good or Do-Good Politics
- Do Americans Tolerate Zero Tolerance?
- How Can Size of Community Still Matter?
- Sending a Message by Pollster
- Loneliness Scare Again… and Again… and…
- Where Have You Gone, “Alienation”?
- Opening Day, 2018: Politics, Race, and Baseball
- Local Cultures
- Chain Migration
- Explaining Trump Some More
- “Okie from Muskogee” a Half-Century On
- Reversing American Voluntarism
- National Character? A Reply to Stearns
- Do We (Still) Value Family?
- Is Marriage Over? For Whom?
- Bannon, Brown, and the Identity Debate
- The Great “American” (or is it New York?) Songbook
- Is Health Care a Right?
- Church Social
- Inequality is about Security and Opportunity
- Democracy in America, France, and “Hamilton”
- Opening Day, 2017: Inequality on the Field, in the Stands
- Voting for the Five Percent
- More (on) Polarization
- Americans and the Unassimilables
- Explaining Trump
- ***** Hiatus *****
- The Great Settling Down
- Election Reflection
- Is the U.S. No Longer Religiously Exceptional?
- Technology and Housework: Other Tasks for Mother?
- Can Sociability Blunt Political Polarization?
- The End of Good Work?
- RFD, Media, and Democracy
- Long Tails, Big Cities, Critical Masses
- A Woman President?
- Magazines: 19th Century Internet
- Friends and “FB Friends”
- Reversal of Fortune: American Cities
- Does Education Work?
- A Tony by Any Other Name…
- Bernie, Hillary, and Historical Memory
- Driving Cattle, Driving Exceptionalism
- Build Bigger Wall? Get More Undocumented.
- Opening Day 2016
- Great Again
- A Celebrity Strong Man
- Survey Says . . .
- Veterans and Suicides?
- Odd Man In
- The Pace, the Pace
- A Street Divided
- A History of Health and Health Inequalities
- Why Diversity
- Family Wages
- What Happened When They Came?
- The Grandma (and pa) Effect
- Turkle, Times, Technology, Trauma–Yet Again
- Just Deserts
- Cell Phone Etiquette
- Changing Hearts, Changing Matters, 2011-2015
- American Self-Creation
- The Immigrant-Crime Connection
- Black by Choice?
- The Marriage Contract
- Attaining Adulthood
- Left Out: Working-Class Kids
- Life is a Stage, or Several
- Family Farms vs. Americanism
- Censor This, Political Correctness
- Opening Day 2015
- Science vs. Religion… or Science and Religion?
- Building the Natural Market
- Dressing Down
- Untangling the Race Gap
- Finding Public Relief
- Surveying Change
- Snap Decisions and Race
- Holy-Day Exceptionalism
- Where Does the “Don’t Shoot” Movement Go?
- Reporting from America’s “Slums”
- Racism as Mental Illness?
- Which University?
- The “Shared” Economy
- Of Places Past
- Long Story of the “Long Tail”
- The Blameless Only
- When Epidemic Hysteria Made Sense
- Latest News on “No Religion”
- Vocabulary Retrogression
- American Way-Differentism: More a Club than a Family
- Do Ideas Matter?
- Alternative to Empathy
- Women Dining
- Too Much Social Science?
- Ferguson and Social Media
- Blame Who or What
- “Libertarianism is Strange” Revisited
- All Tech Is Social
- How Ideas Make Themselves Matter
- Women in Politics 1780-2014
- Government Works
- Telling Stories vs. Telling Data
- Persistence of Race, 2014
- Selfishness or Self-Awareness?
- Virtuous Debt
- Work Hours and the Pay Gap
- Life in Public, Then and Now
- Mourning 9/11 Victorian Style
- A “Friends” Gripe
- Bible Readings
- Old Days, Fast Times
- De-Democratizing?
- Eco-Puritanism
- Bring Me Your….
- Thinking Inequality
- Which Radical Ideas Come True?
- Pastime – Opening Day 2014
- Where Did “Hispanics” Come From?
- Kitty Genovese: The Emblematic Story
- Public Health
- Exceptionalism Ending?
- Risk-Sharing
- Folktales of the Policy Elites
- Male (Job) Insecurity
- Libertarianism is Very Strange
- Art and the Machined World
- The Public Housing Experiment
- The S-Curve of Cultural Change
- Artful History
- Inventing the Social Network
- American Dream, Twisting
- Deservingness
- Place Matters More
- Squirrely History
- Atheist Evangelism: “Nothing New Under the Sun”
- The Giving Season… and Era
- Cell Phone Science
- Boo! Americans and the Occult
- You Call That a Shutdown?
- More Inequality Updates
- Political Responses to the Crash
- Child Labors
- Word Counts and What Counts
- Loss of Economic Exceptionalism
- Learning Sympathy
- Respecting the Science
- Economic Equality, 1774 and Beyond
- Declaring You’re a “None”
- Extremely Local
- Robert Bellah
- Inequality Hits Home
- The Supreme Court Ducks Immutability
- Postcard from Paris
- America’s Religious Market
- American-Made Ethnic-Americans
- New Media and Old Manifestations
- Novel Data: Promise and Perils
- Immigrants and Historical Amnesia
- Inequality Update
- Psychologically Damaged
- Race in the Eye of the Beholder
- Getting Smarter
- Suicide Boom?
- Tweedledee-Tweedledum Nostalgia
- Sexual License, Sexual Limits
- Markets, Prices, and Justice
- Immigration and Political Clout
- Is the Gender Revolution Over?
- Writerly Baseball – Opening Day 2013
- Back Home
- Catholic Schism
- How Material Are We?
- Unholy Alliance: Laissez Faire and the Church
- The ’60s Turn 50
- The Left’s Religion Problem
- Paying Attention to the Kids
- We’re # Last!
- Risk Taking
- The Elderly and Their Children
- Guns
- A Modern “Antebellum Puzzle”?
- Makes One Anxious
- Psychological Labeling … and Enabling?
- The Giving Nation? Philanthropy’s Problems
- Religion, Politics, and the Sunday Mail
- The Happiness Boom
- What Americans Have Been Thinking
- The Verdict on Class and Voting
- Panderocracy
- 9/11 Reaction and Resilience
- A Cost of Inequality: Growth
- Obama’s Racial Penalty
- Choose Your Choice
- To the Poorhouse
- The Polarizing Political Paradox Redux
- The 47% Charge in U.S. History
- The Survey Crisis
- Competitive Intelligence
- Execution Songs
- Spiritual and/or Religious
- “Who Built That?”: Chance and History
- Meeting, Mating, and the Web
- Live Long and Prosper — and Plan
- Voting Violence
- Sex and the American Car
- The Assets Gap
- Differences Under the Differences
- Why Americans Don’t Vacation
- Virtuous Voting
- Clothes Make the Common Man
- Driving Blind
- Geography of Inequality
- Slavery’s Heavy Hand
- Gay Vows
- Explaining Poverty (Again)
- Out- and Insourcing
- Still Under God
- The Loneliness Scare is Back
- Sunday Pleasures, Private Faith
- Between Dole and Market
- Opening Day 2012 – Worldwide
- Tolerating Americans
- What’s the Common in the Common Good?
- End Times and Presidents
- The Abortion Puzzle
- The Army of Black Liberation
- The South Has Risen
- Can’t Believe It
- Marrying — Up, Down, Sideways
- Occupy 2012: Another 1968?
- Over-Impacted
- How Bad is “European”?
- Unique, Sovereign, American
- The Working Class’s Party
- Reconstructing Memory
- Make-Your-Own Religion
- Consume This
- Self-Absorbed: Emerson & Thoreau
- What Works? Votes.
- Stumbling in the Dark
- More on Occupy
- Occupy! Now What?
- Lost Children
- Cheerful Yanks?
- Tolerating Ambiguity
- New News, Old News
- Unequal Denial
- Timing is (Not?) Everything
- Breastfeeding History
- What’s a Life Worth?
- Homesick Blues
- Summer Break
- Spinsters No More
- Missing Tramps
- City Crime; Country Crime
- Living Togetherness
- Naturally Clean
- Women Graduating
- Home Owning Dreams
- Technology and Fundamentals
- Protected Class
- Faith Endures
- American Exceptionalism
- Buying a Head Start
- A. Lincoln, Socialist?
- Opening Day 2011
- Shaken but Secure
- Jobs Go and Come
- Heavy Hand
- The Big Change
- American Ties (III)
- Money and Character
- Going Out–or Home?
- Degree Inequality
- American Ties (II)
- Ugly or Needy
- 18th-Century Twitterfeed
- American Ties (I)
- Grammar Rules
- Christmas Struggle
- Ancestor Worship
- Was Slavery, Is Slavery
- Hanukkah or Vanish?
- Pilgrims, Puritans, Americans?
- Return on Investment
- Solidarity, Soldiers, and Baseball
- Win Stay, Lose Change
- Why Vote?
- We’re All Geniuses
- Caring More or Less
- Life Begins
- Equal Visions
- No Dinner Invitations?
- Depressing Comparisons
- Labor’s Laboring Efforts
- Multiculturalism Lite and Right
- Who Has Your Back
- A Natural Romance
- Alone or Lonely?
- Sentimental Journey
- LeBron & the 10th
- We’re #1 !
- A Fragmenting America? – Pt. 2
- A Fragmenting America? – Pt. 1
- Fighting for the 4th
- Gentrified Memories
- Juneteenth: Race? Slavery?
- Boomer Blues
- No Longer the Tall American
- A Crime Puzzle
- Memorial-izing Day
- Angry Old White Men
- Sisters Take the Streets
- Brooks, Policy, and History
- Tongue-Tied to America
- Happiness Happy
- Inventing Friendship
- American Individualism – Really?
- Tax Day: The Government-Enterprise System
- Opening Day 2010
- Did “Consumerism” Blow Up the Economy?
- A Christian America? What History Shows
- The Myth that Never Moves
- Good Health, Long Life, and Big Government
- Announcing the “Made in America” Site
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