Jonathan Ladd
@jonathanmladd
I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos. Web page:
Our Constitution requires that "all persons" be given equal protection of the laws. Legal action should not be motivated by race or ancestry, even if another reason is used as a pretext. Done by the president and allowed by SCOTUS, which refused to enforce equal protection in the Muslim ban case.
Apart from the question of how college admissions should work. As a factual matter, the current relationship between wealth and admissions at elite universities is almost tailor-made to generate tons of hostility and criticism among the most vocal part of society. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Follow-up: We'll need to conduct all evaluative interviews and tests in person. The demand for people administering these will go up.
Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" George Washington, December 2, 1783: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/add...
Counterpoint. The Cooperative Election Study (CES) asked national samples to place the ideology of every Dem nominee since 2012 on a 1-7 scale. They rated all the Dem nominees at almost the same place on average.
Gallup finds, not surprisingly, that the thing Americans are most concerned about when they think about American universities is the high price tag. Baumol's Cost Disease appears to be one driver here, since schools at all levels are experiencing similar problems. news.gallup.com/poll/712748/...
So much of the reactionary tech elite and rationalist movements' views, epitomized in Elon Musk, are indistinguishable from Calhounism. Here is Calhoun's famous 1848 Senate speech arguing that Jefferson's assertion that "all men are created equal" was wrong.
Grade 10 is a real low point. Not sure these deserve to be included among the most important writings in the entire Western canon. SMH.
People were speaking in "tongues." People were trying to "have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge." But the point is that none of these things matter if you don't have love for the other human beings in your community. That is what is eternal.
Basic macroeconomics teaches us that increases in productivity do not necessarily lead to any increase in the unemployment rate. Believing that they do is a form of the "lump of labor fallacy." Here is Paul Kurgman's explanation of the concept. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of...
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
In 250th anniversary USA swag, there seems to be a good amount of confusion about which document was written in 1776. The Constitution was written in 1787 (took effect in 1789), and the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, establishing the independence we are celebrating this year.
I would go with Belle and Sebastian, but lots of people have vaguely heard of the cartoon because of the band.
Using an RD design based on the admissions test cutoff, it's not clear that there's a treatment effect on later math ability of getting into the NY gifted and talented program, rather than just a selection effect. (This is figure 4) economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
Andy Craig describes this perfectly. www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-histor...
I don't know. As an empirical matter, it is just not the case that American politics is getting more multidimensional overall. You can make a great case for the opposite. And I'm not even sure this makes much sense as a hypothetical formal theoretical claim.
Let's take this from first principles. We have military chaplains because the government denying soldiers a chance to practice their religion could violate the Free Exercise Clause. But you have to have a large, open, and inclusive military chaplain service, or you violate the Establishment Clause.
The Knicks have played the best 12 games in a row in NBA history. Which is great. But the smart bet is that some type of reversion to the mean will happen soon.
The goal is to depict James Talarico as strange and "other." But many religious traditions have small percentages of the entire population. So you can play this trick whenever you want. But there's really nothing fringe about an American being Presbyterian. www.pewresearch.org/religious-la...
This is such a strange way to describe someone being Presbyterian — the % of the entire population who belong to the denomination. I mean, Presidents Jackson, Buchanan, Lincoln (while president), Cleveland, Harrison, Ike, and Reagan were Presbyterians. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...