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 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.

May 8, 2023

Nothing but Shallow Resentment

Alexander Riley

Alexander Riley reviews Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain’s Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

July 22, 2022

Cormac McCarthy: Conservative Novelist

Alexander Riley

Where some critics see only dystopia and misanthropy in the violent novels of Cormac McCarthy, sociologist Alexander Riley notices a “distinct moral core” in McCarthy’s best-known fi......

March 18, 2022

Be a Man: Lessons from Three Literary Priests

Twentieth-century novelists Graham Greene and William Peter Blatty provide portraits of three literary priests possessed of precisely those masculine traits that a vibrant culture needs in abundance,......

December 27, 2021

Of College and Community in the Wake of George Floyd

Alexander Riley

Sociologist Alexander Riley questions whether the establishment of a woke social justice regime is sufficient for a shared notion of community in American colleges, and delineates the likely consequen......

June 7, 2021

Intellectual Affirmative Action

Alexander Riley

A review of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram Kendi.

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