Sambo’s Restaurant: Rise and fall, with Ithaca and Santa Barbara

From an 1899 children's story to the final cancellation of the restaurant in Santa Barbara, California, in 2020. The history runs through us.

Two talks on public sociology (with audio)

I gave two talks at the American Sociological Meetings in New York City this week. I recorded them and removed some of the ums for you here. They're each less than 11 minutes. The first was in a session titled, "Tools for Communicating Sociology Outside the Discipline: What Works, What Doesn't Work, and What's Promising,"…

I don’t give activists unsolicited advice, except: don’t talk to the police

He does not want to get your side of the story.

What if Reason didn’t write the NYT coverage of Oberlin students?

  Daily Beast columnist Robby Soave is also a staff editor at Reason, according to his Twitter profile. Here I'm comparing his column from Dec. 20, "Oberlin College Students: Cafeteria Food Is Racist," with a Dec. 21 news article in the New York Times, written by Katie Rogers, "Oberlin Students Take Culture War to the Dining…

University paternalism and the outwardly-focused student movement

If students were more integrated with the real world off campus for their social and moral community-building needs, their politics might be more outward-looking as well -- and the public might be more supportive of them in return.