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Will Millennials Still be Liberal When They’re Old and Gray?

Mar 1, 2012

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in Demography, Generations, Politics, Public Policy, Trends: Social

NewGeography: Will Millennials Still be Liberal When They’re Old and Gray? The Millennial Generation (born 1982-2003) is the cohort most in favor of using the federal government to promote economic stability and equality since the GI Generation of the 1930s and 1940s. The attitudes of Millennials were heavily shaped by the protected and group-oriented way…

The MA Election: A Rebellion Against the Leviathan?

Jan 27, 2010

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in Politics

It's now been a week since the senatorial election in Massachusetts. I've heard the pundits and their myriad reasons for Scott Brown winning. What does this election mean for Obama and the Dems as we enter the State of the Union address this evening? My favorite reflection on the election's significance was written as the…

Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left

Jan 20, 2010

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in Business, Culture, Politics, Sociology

New York Times: Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left (HT: John Lunn) The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are…

Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal

May 20, 2009

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in Culture, Gender and Sex, Politics, Sociology

FiveThirtyEight: Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal (HT: Gruntled Center) The post quotes from an article by Andrew J. Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee: In remarkable research, the sociologist Rebecca Warner and the economist Ebonya Washington have shown that the gender of a person's children seems to influence the attitudes and actions of…

Study: Mainline clergy growing even more liberal

Apr 14, 2009

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in Ecclesia, Politics, Presbyterian Church, USA, Religion, Trends: Social

Presbyterian Outlook: Study: Mainline clergy growing even more liberal (RNS) Over the last decade, mainline Protestant clergy have inched leftward, with more identifying as Democrats, supporting gay rights, and calling on the government to solve social problems, according to a recently released survey. The “Clergy Voices” survey published on March 6 builds on similar studies…

Tag: liberalism

Will Millennials Still be Liberal When They’re Old and Gray?

The MA Election: A Rebellion Against the Leviathan?

Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left

Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal

Study: Mainline clergy growing even more liberal