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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., day, a new trove of MLK’s archives has been digitized and put on-line. See the King Center’s website, here. It includes letters, speech drafts, press clippings, and the like.

This is a year old, but still interesting: I’ll add another tidbit.  About 45 years ago, a December 1966 Harris Poll asked whether Martin Luther King was “helping or hurting the Negro cause of civil rights.”  Exactly half (50%) of white respondents said “hurting,” while 36% said “helping” and 14% said “not sure.”

This is an interesting clash of worldviews that I wouldn’t have expected. I am not competent to evaluate the arguments made here, it’s just interesting to consider the political alignments. Perhaps a rough analogy is Paul Krugman’s disagreements with Obama in the 2008 primaries. If Santorum does somehow win the Republican nomination, I assume Hassett […]

Those who say Syria is on the verge of civil war should take another look at the facts.

In response to my post criticizing David Brooks for making a broad claim that seemed unsupported by the facts, several commenters rightly jumped on my for making my own sweeping statements about “quals” and “quants.” Let me briefly clarify. I think both qualitative and quantitative work is necessary. Just for example, The Road to Wigan […]

This post is not about an elephant. 

Romney’s “wealth problem” is less about the money, more about the caring.

Using The Princess Bride to explain Google’s corporate policies

There are lots of reasons telephone polls should be losing their accuracy.  But are they?  That’s the question I look at in a new post over at Behind the Numbers.