The Missing Data Depot

American national pride is in trouble, w/ only 58% now “extremely” or “very proud” to be American. In a new post, I show the strongest predictor of pride is whether someone is “woke” or “anti-woke," w/ the “anti-woke” now 2x more likely than the “woke” to express strong pride.

Source: yougov.com/en-us/articles…

New YouGov report on American partisanship between 2007 and 2025 shows that with the one exception of college educated white men, every major demographic group in the US has become more Republican on balance over the last 20 years.

Great new data tool shows that prestigious schools are also those best positioned to survive the challenges facing higher ed in the coming years. Smaller, less prestigious schools, however, may be in trouble. E.g. Private R1's (e.g. Ivies) & selective public flagships (e.g. UVa, UNC, UT Austin) score highly on both "Institutional Resilience" (Can they absorb financial & enrollment shocks?) & "Post-College Market Position" (How well do they position grads for the labor market ahead?). By contrast, many public & private MA-granting institutions (e.g. Faulkner University, Troy University, Ashland University) score poorly on both resilience & post-college market position.

Source: unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-radicali…

How did social science research become so strongly left-leaning ? The Pipeline Model from @PsychRabble provides an answer: “The Pipeline Model suggests the existence of distributed coordination b/w the political far left, academia & mass media. Left media can refer to “scholarship” that reflects the ax-grinding ideologies of those who produce it far more than it reflects anything that is actually true, thereby creating the impression that left-affirming claims have more credibility than they deserve.” “But leaving that aside for now, the main point here is self-selection: Once academia’s well-deserved reputation as a club for lefties that creates a hostile environment for righties gets around, it would be likely that selection into academia of far left radicals would exceed their representation in the general population.”

Source: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Immigration attitudes are linked to the perceived electoral impact of immigration. A new experiment varied the hypothetical partisan composition of immigrants from 100% Dem to 100% Rep. When immigrants were described as Rep., partisan gaps in immigration attitudes disappeared.

These perceptions are arguably more important than where the faculty actually stand b/c students who feel politically out of step w/ their professors report far more self-censorship & far less comfort expressing themselves. More here: themissingdatadepot.substack.com/p/the-high-edu…

Faculty surveys w/ N's large enough to identify the distribution of faculty ideology on a particular campus are rare & limited by selection bias. An alternative approach is to ask students about the faculty's politics. They can accurately perceive where the faculty stand.

Source: heterodoxacademy.org/blog/how-well-…

Debates about faculty viewpoint diversity often focus narrowly on political ideology. As @Musa_alGharbi has shown, other imbalances may also shape academia & the research it produces. E.g. How would research look if faculty were more Christian, less "left", less LGBTQ, etc.?

Source: ifstudies.org/report-brief/a…

A new survey of 18-29 men found that liberal men (48%) were far less likely than moderate (64%) and conservative (76%) men to say they "would like to have children someday." There was a similar gap b/w secular (51%), nominal (67%) and religious (83%) men.

Source: dof.ca.gov/media/docs/bud…

In the 2000-2001 fiscal year, the state of California spent $137 billion. In the 2026-2027 fiscal year, the state of California is projected to spend $539 billion.

The absolute changes are available here:

The U.S. foreign-born population grew by ~36 million b/w 1980 & 2024. But there's wide variation across states: ▪️NJ added 15-points to its foreign-born share (the most of any state) ▪️CA & TX alone account for 35% of the total national increase ▪️MT is the only state where the foreign-born share declined

Source: #section=violence&crime=violence1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">americaspoliticalpulse.com/citizens/#sect…

B/w November 2022 & November 2024, there was no meaningful difference b/w Democrats & Republicans in their support for protesting w/o a permit. By January 2026, however, there was a massive partisan gap, w/ 42% of Democrats but only 16% of Republicans supporting this.

In other words, the change in academia has simultaneously occurred along two distinct dimensions (ideology & activism). The growing activism makes the growing progressivism less palatable. Read more here: unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-singeing… Watch the talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=VSvS6y…

Research paper abstracts from the Society for Personality & Social Psychology's conferences show: ▪️Conservative-leaning papers are almost never presented. ▪️There's been a recent explosion in liberal/progressive papers. ▪️There's been a recent explosion in "activist" papers.