I have to admit to a certain squeamishness when asked about my political affiliations.
Anarchism, Realism and a Personal Journey Through Ideology and Science
Stop Listening to People who Yammer about Identity Politics
The term "Identity Politics" is meaningless. It's a red herring term that distracts us from very real underlying issues of equity and social justice.
MS-13 and Representations of Immigrants as The Other
In this video, I explore how the Administration used MS-13 to develop representations of southern immigrants as dangerous "Others". Controlling representations of "Those People" can be analyzed using W.E.B. Dubois theory on the cultural elements of oppression, what I call The Discourse of the Other.
The Great American Gun Addiction
Gun violence does not exist in isolation. It is a symptom of a larger, societal disease.
Lecture 11: Qualitative Methods of Research
A look at qualitative research and the interpretivist tradition of research.
Conflict Cycles and Body Cameras
It looks like we're just going to have to deal with institutionalized structures of violence rather than try to focus on controlling the behavior of a few "bad apples."
Lecture 10: Quantitative Research Methods
In this time of Fake News and Alternative Facts, we need a standard for discerning what is real and what is not. We need ways of sorting through the Alternative Facts and getting the Factual Facts. Fortunately, that's pretty much what sociologists do every single minute of every day.
The Marketplace of Ideas is Closed for Business
It is now undeniable that what was once vaunted as a marketplace of ideas is now nothing more than a boarded up strip-mall.
On Walls and the Disappearance of Left Wing Discourse
...the goal must be to institute a leftist globalism, not a globalized left, which is a much different thing.
