The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Opting Out of Testing! No Way!

    Way! I am absolutely elated with the Lee County School Board decision to opt out of “all state mandated tests effective immediately.” After all, I live and teach here. Lee County is the first district in Florida to opt out of state mandated testing. It is also the 38th largest school district in the country.… Read more

  • A Final Solution for Palestinians? Really?

    You can’t advocate for genocide and then hope we will all forget about it! When I read Juan Cole’s essay in Truthdig titled, Are Israelis and Zionists Really Talking About a Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem I was expecting to see the predictable rhetoric accompanying both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian debate. Right in the… Read more

  • Hamas is Bad, But…

    We shouldn’t have to make a disclaimer every time we want to criticize Israel In the United States, it is incumbent upon us to make sure to specify that we do not support Hamas somewhere in any essay in which we might be even a little bit critical of Israel. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eugene… Read more

  • The Push and Pull Factors of an American Refugee Crisis

    The United States has to be willing to take responsibility for the harm that it has done to these children! The appalling behavior of many Americans in the face of our current refugee crisis betrays a profound ignorance of our role in creating the very conditions from which children are desperate to escape, as well… Read more

  • One Political Endorsement I Will Make

    Gil Fulbright (or Phillip Mamouf-Wifarts) is running the only honest campaign I’ve ever seen! This is actually pretty brilliant satire. The campaign finance advocacy group, Represent.us is running a fake candidate in the obnoxiously expensive Kentucky senate election. The goal is to educate the people on just how corrupted our political system is and to… Read more

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