The politics of school closings during Covid: At the pandemic record high in December 2020—when vaccines were still not available—fewer than one-fifth of districts Trump won took the precaution of temporary closures; and until mid-March 2021, less than one-fifth of Biden districts were fully open.
Against DEI in medical school.
Fertility is falling below the replacement rate all over the world. But cross-sectioned by income, fertility is U-shaped. When I can find the time, I will give my own explanation for this.
Ross Douthat: the left is unhappy. (NYT)
My own thoughts: 20th century liberalism explained.
I saw no explanation of how the U-curve was age-corrected. Part of the downward slope could have been from workers earning more as they pass child-bearing age. The upward-sloping section shows a rare, very high income group that has little in common with the under-$200K cohort. It’s as though two completely unrelated graphs were combined to give the illusion of a single curve.