From Saad to Glad

by Mark Bauerlein

Gad Saad joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Living the Good Life. Continue Reading »

21 Aug 2023

Who Defined Race in America?

by Mark Bauerlein

David E. Bernstein joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2022

Math Delusion

by Dan Hitchens

Everyone agrees that there are some things money can’t buy. We should be just as sure that there are some questions calculators can’t answer. Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2019

The Latino Marriage Paradox

by Nicholas H. Wolfinger and W. Bradford Wilcox

Eduardo and Graciela Valdez met on the dance floor of a New York salsa club in 2000. Graciela, a single mother, had returned to her childhood Catholicism after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. Continue Reading »

23 May 2016

Statting While Catholic

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

As a Catholic statistician, I tend to read any story headlined with “Surveys say Catholics . . .” ready to flinch. Robert Wuthnow and Emma Green have both raised serious questions about how much religion polls can tell us, and how easy they are to misinterpret.Since I work as a data journalist . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Nov 2015

Global Anti-Semitism?

by Edward S. Shapiro

Last May, the Anti-Defamation League made the start­ling pronouncement that one-quarter of the world’s population is anti-Semitic. The source for that charge was the ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, a comprehensive survey of international populations sponsored by the ADL and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2015