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Dec 2, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | John J. DiIulio
Editor's note: In 2024, just as in 2016 and 2020, Trump won big among working-class white evangelicals but lost majorities of blue-collar blacks, Latinos, and non-evangelical whites. A less than 1% shift in the “blue wall” states would have tipped the Electoral College to Harris, and a less than 1% shift nationally would have given her the popular vote as well.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | John J. DiIulio
Editor's note: In 2024, just as in 2016 and 2020, Trump won big among working-class white evangelicals but lost majorities of blue-collar blacks, Latinos, and non-evangelical whites. A less than 1% shift in the “blue wall” states would have tipped the Electoral College to Harris, and a less than 1% shift nationally would have given her the popular vote as well.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | John J. DiIulio
During the 2024 presidential primaries, then-former President Donald Trump vowed to strip federal employees of their job protections and “shatter the deep state.” Several other contenders for the GOP nomination echoed Trump.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | John J. DiIulio |Yascha Mounk
This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is now proudly part of the Persuasion family. by John J. DiIulio, Jr.Writing here in late October, I asked whether it was “time for truth in polling.” Pollsters, I suggested, need to become far more transparent about their methods and their limitations.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | John J. DiIulio |Yascha Mounk
By John J. DiIulio, Jr.Writing in early July for Public Discourse, I summarized the case against trusting this year’s presidential election polls. I cited a major report by leading academic experts documenting that pre-election polling was bad in 2016 and worse in 2020. In fact, in 2020, the national polls, whether conducted by phone or online, and for all types of samples, were the worst in 40 years.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | John J. DiIulio
The latest wave of conservative critiques of elite universities might make a real difference. We’ve seen two earlier waves of conservative criticism about the nation’s elite universities. The first began in 1951. In God and Man at Yale, a 25-year-old William F.
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May 29, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Martha Bayles |Hole in.. |Mark Helprin |John J. DiIulio
American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright and written and directed by Cord Jefferson, is based on a 2001 book called Erasure, by the California author Percival Everett. Like many people, I got a kick out of the film’s opening sequence, which aims a rare satirical barb at the current academic obsession with silencing anyone—faculty, speaker, student—who in the interest of teaching and learning sets off one of many speech-related tripwires on campus.
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May 29, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Roger Kimball |David Schaefer |John J. DiIulio |Nathan Pinkoski
Using history as a mirror I try by whatever means I can to improve my own life and to model it by the standard of all that is best in those whose lives I write. As a result I feel as though I were conversing and indeed living with them; by means of history I receive each one of them in turn, welcome and entertain them as guests and consider their stature and their qualities and select from their actions the most authoritative and the best with a view to getting to know them.
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May 29, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | John J. DiIulio |Mark Helprin |John Miller |Aaron M. Renn
In 1982, Glenn C. Loury—who will turn 76 in September but still charmingly refers to himself as “aging”—became Harvard’s first tenured African-American professor of economics. He is a world-class economic theorist, a monumentally impressive public intellectual, and a now-faithful father of five—having overcome decades-long sex and drug addictions. In Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative, Loury looks back at his life and legacy, his tragedies and triumphs.
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May 29, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Martha Bayles |John J. DiIulio |David Schaefer
Fledgling entrepreneurs often employ the term “disruption” to advertise their ventures. In most cases, it’s an exaggeration, presenting as revolutionary an incremental improvement to an existing product or service. The trick is to disguise continuity as discontinuity. In politics, the trick typically runs the other way.
