The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • Sorry for my absence

    I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but lack of time and general fatigue have taken their toll over the last couple of months. I have plenty of topics on my mind and should be coming out with a bunch of posts soon. Please be patient and thanks for hanging in there. I’m Read more

  • I’d Like to Thank Mr. Connelly, My First 10th Grade World History Teacher

    Fortunately, he didn’t have to prove “value added” in order to keep his job   When I was in 10th grade I was placed into Mr. Connelly’s world history class. It was an average level class with average level students who more or less didn’t want to be in school, or specifically didn’t want to Read more

  • What Liberals Mean by “Democracy”

    And why conservatives hate and fear it!   Recently, the United States relearned some old lessons in democracy. Currently we experienced the culmination of a generation long process of stripping from the United States the vestiges of liberal democracy; consequently we learned that the conservative promise of individualized freedom and free market utopia was at Read more

  • Unions are Good for Students…um…a little

    Unions are not the problem in education   In fact, it could very well be that unions are an integral, part of the solution…that is, unless we’ve decided to entangle them in a nihilistic political gambit designed to silence a segment of the political discourse. All around the world teacher’s unions and educational systems work Read more

  • Shout Out to the Unions and the Labor Movement

    We need to recognize the benefits we have because of unions and the labor movement. Then we need to work to resurrect this endangered species of democratic checks and balances.   Because of Unions and the Labor Movement I was able to take a day off from work to enjoy a special event with my Read more

  • Why Conservatives Hate the Working Man

    Despite conservative rhetoric of “freedom” and “fiscal responsibility” the truth is that the right has always been a staunch defender of elite interests at the expense of the common man Before you start reading this post, please, I implore you, don’t take my word for anything that I’m about to say. This Journal is not Read more

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