THE POLITICS OF PHYSICAL STRENGTH: “Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.”

While this may resurrect the blogosphere’s “hyper-masculinity” debate, let me suggest that physical development generally requires a good deal of self-discipline as well. Those who possess less self-discipline are likely to favor redistribution, too, for obvious reasons. So this may be a matter of correlation, rather than causation. Though either way, I suppose, the stereotype of the leftist as weedy beta male is supported. It’s science! You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?