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

Alexander Riley

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

Alexander Riley

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

Alexander Riley

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

Alexander Riley

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

Alexander Riley

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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