The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • 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

  • On Facebook

    Continue the discussion in the Journal of a Mad Sociologist Facebook Group   Quite a few new subscribers have signed on to the Journal of a Mad Sociologist Blog. Welcome! For those of you who don’t know, The Journal of a Mad Sociologist has a Facebook page. Click the logo below to sign up. Read more

  • Because They’re Children!

    Americans Should be Ashamed of Our Response to Refugee Children! My position on this issue could never be clearer or simpler to explain, so this blog post will be among my shortest: Any nation or culture that feels threatened by, or turns its back on, children does not deserve to exist! The hate-filled bigotry of… Read more

  • The Rejection of Science in the Age of Science

    Americans are rejecting science, and putting themselves…and everyone else…in peril Every semester I lead my Introduction to Sociology students through the following scenario: Uncle Phil is sitting at home watching television, a wonder of technological advancement, and eating a microwave meal. Suddenly, he feels a sharp pain in his chest that travels down his left… Read more

  • The Die is Cast in Iraq

    US Military Assistance Will Not Work   Just a quick word on Iraq. The situation in Iraq may be ugly, but it’s a fairly easy mess to understand sociologically. Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire shortly after World War I, the cards have always been stacked against Iraqi stability. Iraq could be understood as… Read more

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