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Guest Contribution: The Vaccine “Debate?”

6 Oct 2025
Edward Harrington, The Rational League ARE VACCINES SAFE OR NOT? NOTE: This year has seen a heightened flurry around the so-called vaccine debate. Consequently, we are witnessing a decrease in…
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My Comments to the Lee (as in Robert E…) County School Board

10 Sep 202510 Sep 2025
How Do We Convince Voters That We Are Addressing Teacher Compensation Without Actually Paying Teachers More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3gLUDtI_U0 My home county has been going through a process to figure out how…
Sociology…

A Brief Course on States, Rights, and Power

5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025
IN BRIEF VIDEOS A Course on States, Rights, and Power Curriculum Specifications Course: Sociology, US Government, Civics Education Level: Advanced High School, College Undergraduate Reading Level: 9.83 Read Time: 7…
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Who Should Control Instruction in Public Schools?

10 Aug 202510 Aug 2025
Teachers are self-censoring for fear of upsetting a given political constituency Note: This article appeared as a Guest Column in the Fort Myers News Press. Click Here to read in…
Guest Contribution…

Guest Contribution: A Primer on Ideology and Ideologues

21 Jul 202521 Jul 2025
Or why no one is got when there is a "gotcha" moment By Professor Rod Graham, Old Dominion University Sociology of Knowledge Note: I've been planning a more comprehensive set…
Sociology

Chapter 4: Society and Human Behavior

14 Jul 202514 Jul 2025
Section 2: The Nature/Nurture Debate Introduction: The Nature Hypothesis Do you have some special quality that you identify with? Are you a talented artist? An athlete? Great at math? When…
Sociology

How Many Genders?

9 Jul 2025
THE TWO GENDER DICHOTOMY IS NOT AS COMMON SENSE AS IT SEEMS Challenging the Male/Female Binary Curriculum Specification Course: Sociology, Sexual Education Education Level: High School Reading Level: 10 Read…
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On Due Process

2 Jun 20252 Jun 2025
WHY CAN'T WE JUST LOCK UP THE BAD GUYS? Understanding What the Heck is Going On You can also get this and all Underground Classroom, Mad Sociologist, and Video projects…
Guest Contribution…

Guest Contribution: The First Measured Century

7 May 20257 May 2025
Note Note: I'm delighted to be sharing the Underground Classroom's very first Guest Contribution. This lesson focuses on the history of polling and public opinion and the impacts of "being…
Current Events…

What’s This Stuff About the GDP Numbers…Should We Be Worried?

2 May 20252 May 2025
When the Data is Noisy An Economics Class Explainer of GDP Curriculum Specifications Course: Social Studies, Specifically Economics Educational Level: High School Reading Level: 6.46 12 Minute Read The other…

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  • Association for Critical Socioloyg committed to providing both a space for critical analysis and an opportunity to have an open dialogue that can examine the consequences of capitalist development and the potential for resistance.
  • Comparative Historical Sociology Love history? Love sociology? Now you can have both!
  • Council on Contemporary Families Keep track of the latest data on families.
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  • Marxists Sociology Blog Blog of the Marxist Section of the ASA
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  • Racial Dot Map Interactive data on the racial make-up of the United States
  • Realtime Inequality Data on the beneficiaries of economic growth.
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  • Federal Reserve Economic Database FRED
  • Haver Analytics For economic data
  • Intelligence Economist
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  • Paul Krugman (Keynesian)
  • Realtime Inequality Data on the beneficiaries of economic growth.
  • Richard Wolff
  • The Curious Economist
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  • The Street The latest economic news.
  • The Undercover Economist
  • Top 100 Economics Blogs
  • Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  • Washington Times Econ 101 Simple economic explanations for complex current events
  • World Inequality Database Research on the worldwide historical distribution of wealth and income

Fact Checking

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Philosophy Links

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Why are We at War with Iran?

Why are We at War with Iran?

The background and factors involved in the Iran War.

Filling Your Gas Tank

Filling Your Gas Tank

An Explainer of our Global Oil System and its Consequences Curriculum Specifics The Background Are you driving? You may have noticed that filling that tank is a bit more expensive. Or maybe you are listening to your parents grumble a bit more at the gas station. Maybe you’re wondering what’s going on. Yeah! What the […]

An Introduction to Sociology Text–Free State Edition

An Introduction to Sociology Text–Free State Edition

On Ditching the Text and Subversive Teaching

My Comments to the Robert E. Lee County School Board 2/10/2026

My Comments to the Robert E. Lee County School Board 2/10/2026

There are two ways to deal with protest. The authoritarian way…punishment, or the democratic way…listening and responding.

[News Press 1/24/26] ‘Conservative principles’ in schools silence diverse voices

[News Press 1/24/26] ‘Conservative principles’ in schools silence diverse voices

My Response to Partisan School Board Races

Recent Posts: The Mad Sociologist Blog

A Schematic of America’s War Machine

A Schematic of America’s War Machine

The System as designed creates a moral hazard by which the Epstein Class profits handsomely from entering into risks the rest of us are forced to pay.

Our Crude System is Failing

Our Crude System is Failing

One way or the other, working people will pay the short-term costs spread out over the long term.

An Introduction to Sociology Textbook–Free State Edition

An Introduction to Sociology Textbook–Free State Edition

On Ditching the Text and Subversive Teaching

Jesse Jackson and the Road not Taken

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Jesse Jackson’s epic presidential run was a turning point for the Democratic Party.

Why Not Open Borders Part 2: The Economic Argument

Why Not Open Borders Part 2: The Economic Argument

The economic benefits of immigration has been argued for years. The bottom line is, we have a shortage of homemade young people. That means we need to import them. Fortunately, there’s a whole bunch of them ready to come and work.

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