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Understanding Society: EP Thompson's break with Stalinism understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2024/02/ep-tho…

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Understanding Society: Limitations of Hobsbawm's historical writing understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2024/03/limita…

Understanding Society: Popper and Parfit: the minds of philosophers understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2024/04/popper…

Understanding Society: Assessing causes in the past (Kreuzer) understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2024/05/assess…

Understanding Society: "Rigorous" sociology understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2024/06/rigoro…

US banana giant ordered to pay $38m to families of Colombian men killed by death squads theguardian.com/world/article/…

1/ At long last, can we all stop pretending that Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are legitimate jurists? They are politicians who were effectively “appointed” to the Court by the Federalist Society, which has turned the Supreme Court into an unaccountable

No no no, SCOTUS. Do NOT try to quote Alexander Hamilton to support this horrendous immunity decision. Hamilton's Federalist No. 77 *SPECIFICALLY* cites "prosecution in the common course of law" as a check on the president. And you amateur historians just ignored it. "Original

The Supreme Court has shown itself to be governed, not by allegiance to the rule of constitution and law, but by slavish allegiance to a self-declared tyrant in waiting. Shame, shame, shame on these servants of the enemies of democracy.

The Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling represents the worst crisis to our democracy we have yet faced. Shame on these amoral ideologues ...

The Supreme Court ruling places the president beyond the law in any "official act" he orders. Impeachment is the only remedy, and we've seen how that worked after January 6. Ordering arbitrary imprisonment or murder of his enemies--as suggested by his own lawyers--would pass.

Scott was a genuine innovator and highly collaborative. The Center for Agrarian Studies at Yale was an exciting place under his leadership. Domination and the Arts of Resistance is a favorite of mine ...

Exit polls showed González winning 65% and Maduro getting 31%. There is no way these exit polls were off by 30%! So now all democrats of the world -- in governments and societies -- must stand with the majority of people of Venezuela & not let Maduro steal this election.

"Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, a complex of security services — military, paramilitary, police — and experts in surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation.” on.ft.com/3WRLWfT

Family separation was an atrocity during the first Trump administration… now they promise the same horrific crime against young children and parents… shame on us! washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

A Trump-era atrocity … family separation. undsoc.org/2022/08/19/a-t…

The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

Appearing in March -- Rethinking Analytical Sociology (Edward Elgar). The book outlines the methods and achievements of analytical sociology, and highlights several key weaknesses in the approach. e-elgar.com/shop/usd/rethi…

Understanding Society: Rethinking Analytical Sociology understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2025/03/rethin…