The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • What we can learn from the music of the '60's

    I just finished reading Tom Brokaw’s book Boom!.  It was a good read and an interesting approach to the topic of the sixties, though frankly, I think Brokaw’s journalistic style leaves out some of the robustness and dynamism of the generation. But this is not a critique of the book. If you are a student Read more

  • Don't want the regs? Give the money back!

    It’s really impossible to know just exactly how much money the government has dished out to failing economic institutions to keep them afloat.  Many critics from both sides of the political debate bristle at this, but we are told that these institutions are just too big to fail.  They must be kept afloat with an Read more

  • But Don't Say Class War! Burger King, Goldman Sachs and Labor

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  • Expose the Tyrants…but don't ruin their reputations!

    Last week the White House released seven memos heretofore kept secret by the Bush Administration.  What do these memos reveal? Well, they reveal that things really were as bad as they seemed.  It’s like the paranoid learning that everyone really is out to get him. There’s a satisfied sense of “see, I told you,” followed Read more

  • Confusing Supreme Court Decision: State, Religion and Government "Free Speech"

    The Supreme Court decision on Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum offered an interesting way to sidestep the whole separation of church and state “thing.” It’s not the first time the high court was wrong, of course, and every time it’s wrong there are social consequences.  We’ll see just how intense the consequences are in Read more

  • Rape as Social Policy: The Congo

    Last week’s blog about rape and knowledge was written as a prelude to this.  After reading Ann Jones article in The Nation  A Crime Against Society I couldn’t help but think that the unfortunate women in the story were not only victimized by individual rapists, nor by the very policies and military strategies that encourage Read more

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