Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The State of the Asian American Middle Class

The share of Asian Americans in the U.S. middle class has held steady since 2010, while the share in the upper-income tier has grown. The post The State of the Asian American Middle Class appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Methodology

The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]

The Persecution of Donald Trump

Let me lay my cards out on the table: I don’t like Donald Trump. I never have. His faults are legion, and, aside from the significant exception of his Supreme Court picks, I was wholly unimpressed with his first term as president. He’s weak on abortion and gay marriage, he surrounded himself with swamp creatures […]

Leaving Evangelicalism

Leaving Evangelicalism Evangelicals are hypocrites. How many times have we heard that critique since 2016? “Character matters,” except when it comes to the bloc’s preferred candidate. The movement claims Christ—and at the same time, allows for white supremacy and sexism. Power is the endgame of piety. In her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and […]

Another Productivity Hack?

Another Productivity Hack? Everyone wants to get things done, but it can be hard to predict how long they’ll take. Mathematicians needed three centuries to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem—first proposed around 1637, the solution only came in 1994. Was that remarkably fast, or pathetically slow? What about rebuilding bridges and highways? Construction timelines often seem […]