Why Religion, Not Income, Predicts the American Vote

Here’s one advantage of being a professor that I’ve only really started to appreciate in the last couple of years: if you sit with an idea long enough—thinking about it repeatedly for days on end—you eventually find a new way to approach a problem. There’s nothing magical about it. It’s more like a brute-force method of discovery. You just keep turning an idea over until something clicks and a new angle emerges.