The Problem of the Status Quo Approach to Public Opinion

What is public opinion? Seems an easy question, does it not? The immediate response, whether one asked a member of the public or political scientist, would be that public opinion is simply how the entire population of a polity feel about a …

In the three large undergraduate sections of an introductory political science class I am teaching this semester, we are currently debating the impact of political culture in Texas. As a precursor to that debate, I asked students to examine Texas culture and cultural identity in general. One point I …

Christopher Nolan’s new film, the Odyssey, has launched a thousand think pieces. Below, I have included the headlines from some of the more provocative pieces about the work.