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- Discrimination in employment today
- A more pluralistic analytical sociology
- Organizational failure — upcoming video seminar
April 2026
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- How are an individual’s political values formed?
- Group identities and inclusive multicultural democracy
February 2026
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- Grounds for impeachment
- Racial assumptions in western political philosophy
- Can liberal political philosophy support anti-racism?
- A political philosophy for an inclusive multicultural democracy
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- Orwell on historical truth
- An absolutist Socrates
- A horrendous massacre in Tamil Nadu, 1968
- Moses Finley's persecution by McCarthyism
August 2023
- Memory and culture after 1989 in Central Europe
- Are organizations emergent?
- Marxism and British historiography
- A curious convergence between social ontology and process metaphysics
July 2023
- A new course on the terrible twentieth century
- The generation of the Freedom Riders
- Regulatory failure in freight rail traffic
- Trump, Hitler, and the politics of legality
- The air traffic control system and ethno-cognition
- Life and memory in Lviv
June 2023
- Asian Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences
- Eric Hobsbawm's history of the Historians' Group
- Aldon Morris on the Civil Rights movement
- How "micro" does the sociology of social movements need to go?
- Touraine's method of "sociological intervention" applied to contentious politics
- Photographs from the Holocaust
May 2023
- Key premises of analytical sociology
- Meso-foundational explanations
- New thinking about how authoritarian rule works
- Sources of technology failure
- Authoritarian steps in Red state legislatures
April 2023
- Analytical sociology and contentious politics
- Psychology of "comradeship" in Hitler's armies
- Psychology of morality
- Social science study of the Holocaust
- Origins of American right-wing extremism in the 1960s
- The diachronic social
March 2023
- ChatGPT makes stuff up
- Red-state authoritarianism
- Corporate ethics and corporate crimes
- W.E.B. Du Bois' stunning modernist data graphics
February 2023
- Isaiah Berlin's approach to history of philosophy
- Mechanisms of extremist mobilization
- Decline of support for democratic norms
- New public administration 1968-2002
January 2023
- Ten paper topics in philosophy and history framed by ChatGPT
- ChatGPT as an academic writer
- Philosophy of public administration?
- Is ontological individualism still a viable social ontology?
- Atomism versus holism in social ontology
- Guest post: Varieties of realism by Jamie Morgan
December 2022
- Pinpointing responsibility for Russian atrocities in Bucha
- Sherwood Eddy’s treatment of Marx
- Lies and myths in the social world
- Frameworks and stereotypes
- Journal of Critical Realism CFP on Judgemental Rationality
- Reforming policing
November 2022
- Koestler's observations of Soviet totalitarianism
- Who is ordering torture and execution in Ukraine?
- Reasoning for sociological theory
- Twitter's unacceptable hidden defect
- Election Day 2022
- Fifteen years of Understanding Society
- Critical realism and ontological individualism
October 2022
- João Ohara's new synthesis of the philosophy of history
- Constitution Day lecture 2022
- A culturally conservative streak in Tony Judt
- Scientific rationality and anomaly
- Marx's influences as a social scientist
- Democratic socialism in the 1930s
September 2022
- River warfare in the US Civil War
- Confronting Evil in History
- Malcolm Muggeridge on the Holodomor
- Better-functioning organizations
- Sliding towards "semi-fascism"
- Social cognitive frameworks and social class
August 2022
- Philosophers and Marx in the 1950s
- Organizational factors and nuclear power plant safety
- A Trump-era atrocity
- Resisting authoritarian populism
- Can we avoid catastrophe?
- The growing risk of authoritarian rule in the US
July 2022
- Is there a working class in the US?
- Gross economic inequalities in the US
- English socialism
- HB Acton's version of Marxism
- Sidney Hook's theory of education in a democracy
- A 1934 debate about communism among American philosophers
June 2022
- Paradigms, conceptual frameworks, and denkkollektive
- Social embeddedness of scientific and intellectual work
- The GOP descent into right-wing authoritarianism
- Philosophy after the Holocaust
- Dysfunctions of Soviet economic ministries
- Soviet atrocities in Ukraine, 1941
May 2022
- Infrastructures of evil
- How will Russia's fascist aggression end?
- Incitement of violence by far-right media networks
- Злі наслідки тоталітарних ідеологій
- Evil consequences of totalitarian ideologies
- Tolstoy's characterization of Napoleon (Putin)
April 2022
- Tolstoy's philosophy of history
- Can Nietzsche support a decent political philosophy?
- Realism about social entities
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