The politics of sociology
Consider the following quote: Sociology has recently been subject to a severe critique by Alvin Gouldner (1970), who has repeated and sought to document the charge that the theoretical orientations…
Supreme Court, Supreme Issues
I have long been annoyed by how the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) seemed to work, so I decided to look more into this by reading a short textbook on the…
Why woke? What to do about it?
I am a little late to the party, but I too want to post my reviews of 2 recently high grade books on the woke phenomenon and what to do…
Jan-Erik Lönnqvist vs. Emil Kirkegaard on mental illness and the left
Occasionally, academics launch an unprompted attack on me. Unprompted in the sense that I had never previously heard of this person as far as I know. Recently a Swedish professor…
Is the past the future?
Edward Dutton (AKA. Jolly Heretic) and J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles has a new book out: The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution (2022). The summary is: Since the…
Music preferences 2023
Anon asks on Twitter: i'm just curious. what's your favorite genre of music? It seems like a good diversion from the usual serious posting on the blog. What I listen…
Actual communism is bad for your health
Saw this anti-communism meme today: (I couldn't find a higher res version.) Looks true enough, but perhaps cherry-picked. There were more than 6 countries in the ex-USSR. So I downloaded…
Social media, mental health, and political polarization
Richard Hanania has a nice post: How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression. He looked into the trends of mental health problems and whether this could…
Conservatives aren’t stupid*
Richard Hanania likes to tell us: It’s why people say I’m a conservative despite half my writing being about how conservatives are immoral, low IQ, and generally inferior to liberals.…
The dimensionality of politics
Most political science research is based on a 1 dimensional model of politics: left vs. right. However, this model is actually and obviously false in a nontrivial way. Take studies…