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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Experimental methods in sociology

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An earlier post noted the increasing importance of experimentation in some areas of economics ( link ), and posed the question of whethe...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Mounk on the crisis of democracy

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Yascha Mounk's recent The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It is one of several important efforts...
Friday, July 10, 2020

A new social ontology of government

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After several years of thinking about the nature of government as a network of organizations, I am happy to share the news that Palgrave...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Conditions for a resilient diverse democracy

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Under what conditions can a modern mass society embodying differences of race, religion, wealth, and political ideology maintain a funct...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Who was Angelo Herndon?

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In a previous post I quoted Langston Hughes' 1938 poem "The Kids Who Die", which is very powerful in the context of our...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

The Kerala dialogue on COVID-19

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The Indian state of Kerala has taken an especially active approach to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kerala, a state of more than 33 m...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

STS and big science

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A previous post noted the rapid transition in the twentieth century from small physics (Niels Bohr) to large physics (Ernest Lawrence)....
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The arc of justice

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It has been over a month since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The horror, brutality, and relentless cruelty of George Floyd...
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