Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.