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October 2026

October 05, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 10/5/25

The only demographic not in a "sex recession." Adult-only households buy more toys than those...

September 2026

September 25, 2026

Nones, Others, & Switchers

Is American religion declining or reviving? Research gives different answers. Two scholars argue that religion...

September 21, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 9/21/26

More Americans now support the Palestinains than support Israel. U.K. parliament votes down assisted suicide. ...

August 2026

August 07, 2026

Why Social Science Is Not a Science

A major study of the quality of scientific research found that only 49% of the...

August 06, 2026

Liquidating Sociology

Sociology has gone all in on woke ideology, abandoning objectivity and the pursuit of knowledge...

July 2026

July 17, 2026

Pop Music Is Increasingly about “Harm and Degradation”

Complaining about young people's music has become a cliché of getting older, as have complaints...

July 14, 2026

Leisure Doesn’t Make Us Happy

Wouldn't it be great not to have to work? To devote ourselves to constant entertainment?...

June 2026

June 29, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 6/29/26

Is America's 250th birthday all about Trump? Support for LGBTQ causes is down. Anthropic's super-AI...

June 18, 2026

Woke Therapy

Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert discusses a trend in his profession: Approaching patients' psychological problems by applying...

June 17, 2026

Shifts in America’s Moral Profile

The latest Gallup "Values and Beliefs Poll," surveying Americans about what they consider "morally acceptable"...

May 2026

May 15, 2026

How Religion Can Be Growing and Declining at the Same Time

Is religion making a comeback, or is it still in a state of decline? Different...

May 13, 2026

The Social Imaginary of Our Secular Age

A discussion of Charles Taylor's analysis of secularism and the social imaginary that shapes both...

May 12, 2026

Worldview vs. Social Imaginary

Christians have long used the concept of "worldview" as a way to understand both the...

February 2026

February 25, 2026

Has Religion Become an “Elite Marker”?

The well-known social scientist Joel Kotkin has uncovered some surprising details about the purported upsurge...

February 20, 2026

The Tempations of a Christian University

The university was essentially invented by the church. And yet today Christian universities have a...

November 2025

November 11, 2025

Interrogating the Faith & Work Movement

FREE POST: A new book on the Faith & Work movement--from a sociological, not theological...

November 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 11/3/25

The Argentine free-market champion wins his election. Social contagion is real. And canceled professors are...

September 2025

September 17, 2025

When Culture Opposes Family

The family is the foundation of culture, as all anthropologists agree. But today in the...

September 09, 2025

Schools That Don’t Teach Knowledge

A cognitive scientist complains, "Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching."

August 2025

August 28, 2025

The Personality Collapse

A study found that over the last ten years, while other age groups were relatively...

August 15, 2025

A Marriage Renaissance?

New evidence shows that divorce is down, more children are living with their married parents,...

August 14, 2025

Christianity’s Improved Social Status

"As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen...

August 06, 2025

Re-enchantment or More Disenchantment?

With the rise of science over religion, "disenchantment" has become a hallmark of modernity. People...

June 2025

June 20, 2025

Surprises from a Major Study of World Religion

The most Christian region of the world is sub-Saharan Africa. The world's fastest growing religion...

June 18, 2025

The Collapse of Our Knowledge System

"The biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in...

June 17, 2025

Protests, Riots, and Sending in the Troops

Protests against efforts to deport illegal immigrants in Los Angeles degenerated into riots, as protesters...

May 2025

May 22, 2025

Entering the Post-Progressive Era

A UK political scientist argues that progressivism is over. This is not just a matter...

May 21, 2025

Empirical Evidence on Vocation

My review of a book on religion in the workplace, which includes a large-scale empirical...

May 08, 2025

Surprises from a Huge Study on Human Flourishing

An international study of human flourishing has been released, and it is full of surprises.

April 2025

April 25, 2025

The Faith-Religion Cycle

Researchers note that while church affiliation has plummeted, religious beliefs have not. They conclude that...