Enik Rising

At the APSA meeting in Seattle this year, the great Thad Hall stormed into a hotel bar demanding to know why conservatives were so convinced...

John Sides has the keys to 538 and has posted a nice piece suggesting that Republicans are more likely than not to nominate an ideological...

Nate Silver has a nice post up in which he compares the ideological stances of current governors with those of the voters they represent. I...

Name the speaker: [The President] has lost faith in the American people. Just look at the men surrounding him. They are cynics who scoff at...

I saw some very good papers at MPSA this year, but one that struck me as simultaneously novel, fun, and useful was this one by Duke grad st...

Do conservatives and liberals have different senses of humor? Amanda Balzer points me to a telling article by Glenn Wilson called " Id...

I just watched "Splash" (1984) with the kids today. I haven't seen it in years. I always enjoyed the rather unconventional (pa...

Ideology remains one of the most difficult concepts in the study of political parties. We have a general sense that ideology is a way of sor...

Okay, thanks to John Sides for showing me Google's Ngram Viewer . I found this one interesting: This supports a claim Frances Lee ma...

Is a political activist's job to advance an ideal or to advance the party that purportedly stands for that ideal?  If this question inte...

Okay, you know what?  Forget what I just said .  I actually do have something to say about soccer.  Or at least about the conservative rejec...