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A Sociological Meme
[Updated below] So I wasn’t tagged on this (which is fine), but read it on the GlobalSociology blog; and since I don’t know any sociologists who blog I won’t be tagging anyone else. … more »
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larcen44 wrote 1 month ago: Some sociologists have defined racism as a system of group privilege. In Portraits of White Racism D … more »
A Sociological Meme
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Todd wrote 4 months ago: [Updated below] So I wasn’t tagged on this (which is fine), but read it on the GlobalSociology … more »
How the University Works
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Todd wrote 5 months ago: How the University Works is an amazing blog by Marc Bousquet, an English professor at Santa Clara Un … more »
How the University Works
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Todd wrote 5 months ago: How the University Works is an amazing blog by Marc Bousquet, an English professor at Santa Clara Un … more »
On Beling a Public Intellectual
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Todd wrote 5 months ago: Russel Jacoby’s recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education revisits his 25 year old con … more »
What Is a Scholar?
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Todd wrote 7 months ago: Reading in the October New Yorker magazine the brief intellectual biography of Jacques Barzun, histo … more »
Evolution, Religion, Biology and Social Science
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: I’ve written several times here about whether or not I think religion is evolutionarily adapti … more »
History as an Academic Discipline
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: Last fall, a former student of mine, now in graduate school, asked me to give my impressions of the … more »
Orthodoxy, Belief, Cynicism, and Credulity
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: I’m teaching a course about Nature and Culture this summer, and I’m in the middle of the … more »
Literary Criticism Is Anti-Intellectual
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: I just read this irritating article by Tom Lutz on Salon.com excoriating people who don’t like … more »
Standup Economist
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: You know you’re a nerdy social scientist when this brings you to tears: … more »
Life of the Mind (Hofstadter)
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just begun reading Richard Hofstadter’s seminal work from 1964, Anti-Intellectualis … more »
Good News!
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: My 2nd year tenure dossier has officially been accepted by the Provost at my university. The tenure … more »
Knowledge: Faith & Reason
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: My alma mater (soul mother?) University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities hosted a series of … more »
Higher Education — Some Musings
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Todd wrote 1 year ago: Now that I’m no longer part of the academic proletariat, or as I used to call myself, the acad … more »
BYU Is at It Again—9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Put on Leave
Todd wrote 1 year ago: This time, they’ve put a professor on administrative leave for being part of the 9/11 conspira … more »
BYU Is at It Again—9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Put on Leave
Todd wrote 1 year ago: This time, they’ve put a professor on administrative leave for being part of the 9/11 conspira … more »
Book Angst & the Role of Theory in Social Scientific Research
Todd wrote 2 years ago: As many of you know, I'm working over the summer to complete revisions on the manuscript of my f … more »
The Meaning of a University Education (Musings after the BYU Thread)
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Todd wrote 2 years ago: A friend introduced me to a fantastic web site this morning called Butterlies and Wheels. Ophelia B … more »
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