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Alexander Riley

Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. All views are his own and do not represent the views of his employer. Find him on Twitter @AllThingsRhap and follow his other writings on Substack (https://alexanderriley.substack.com/).

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July 3, 2025

A Slave to Whatever Has Mastered You

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Alexander Riley critiques Tricia Rose’s Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives―and How We Break Free, a wholly inadequate attempt to explain racial disparities with ap......

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June 24, 2024

The Warped Vision of Contemporary Sociology

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The decline of sociology as an academic discipline has been unfolding in plain sight as ideologues colonize departments and repurpose scholarship in the service of radical political goals. A series of......

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July 18, 2023

Two French Canadians Assess the Revolution

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Two recent books by French-speaking Canadians tell us that the United States is not the only country beset by declining academic standards, anti-Western hatred, and cancel culture.

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May 22, 2020

The Failure of the New Class under the Test of COVID-19

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When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first appeared, many experts understated the threat. Now more than two months into the pandemic these same experts have coalesced around the most hyperbolic disease modeling.

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May 21, 2020

🔒The Failure of the New Class under the Test of COVID-19

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When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first appeared, many experts understated the threat. Now more than two months into the pandemic these same experts have coalesced around the most hyperbolic disease modeling.

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