A Good War is Hard to Find

Over the weekend I finished David Griffith’s A Good War is Hard to Find , a non-fiction book - an extended essay, really - on the peculiarly paradoxical moral sensibilities we Americans have come to cultivate toward violence. The point of departure for the book, its key moral dilemma, is framed by the photos that [...]

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TC Noose Hanging, Cont’d

No significant updates in the noose-hanging case at Teachers College. News vans remain parked outside, and students and faculty alike continue to talk about it in classes and hallways.
Here’s a brief New York Times article about Madonna Constantine, the professor who found the noose on her door.
The two most commonly-expressed reactions I’ve heard have [...]

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Wife Power

All I can say is read this great story, and analysis, here.
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The Larry Craig Show

So, I want to engage in a little bit of superficial political analysis about this whole Larry Craig affair (sorry about the superficiality - when it comes to politics, and many other things, I can’t do any better). Larry Craig, of course, was arrested and pled guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct stemming from [...]

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ASA Conference, Day 1

Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]

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