Sociology professor, runner, husband to Tania, dad to Sylvie & Louis. Making Moral Citizens, my book on faith-based community organizing, avail. from @unc_press
If key characteristics of a plausible 2028 Dem are:
-a master of digital media
-will piss off some faction of Dems
-outsider cred
There’s an obvious person who shouldn’t be ruled out, even if ideologically/identity-wise she currently seems as insane as someone named BHO in 2004.
@ArmandDoma It's plausible that if they thought the choice was between billionaire-aligned parties anyway, they decided to go with the one not currently in control of the govt (and whose candidate happened to embody a form of masculinity they like)
There’s a TikTok trend of college women driving to their home states to vote after their mail-in ballots didn’t show up on time.
I’ve never seen anything like it in the US.
Eff DeJoy though.
there are so many people saying you should not vote kamala to send a message against the genocide this week that i'm convinced russia has a million bots at work
Three of the most extraordinary paragraphs that I have ever read in a FT article: https://t.co/221hce60g9
I read AJR as a PhD student. The snark of FT is… impeccable.
I'm excited to be part of this event with Sarah and lots of other smart people on how religion matters in US politics. If you're near Boston, we'd love to see you there.
New England folks, I’m part of this exciting event at @BostonCollege later this month. Two fantastic panels on Christian Nationalism and the election. Registration info in the image.
@Etel_Haxhiaj@speedofwhite@therta Thank you. The DTM commissioner seems fantastic and I hope he can push for changes. But to be a functional city we need a functional transit system. I really appreciate your advocacy for one and I hope that advocacy can develop some stronger teeth eventually, somehow.
What feels like a lifetime ago (from 2009-11), I worked for Epic. Even then - not yet sociologically trained - I could tell it was shady.
This article crystallizes what I saw then, and starkly lays out the scale of graft in our healthcare system.
https://t.co/ByIEtMYodd
"A remarkable contribution to the sociology of religion, cultural sociology, and social movements."
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I'm exceedingly grateful for this thoughtful and generous review of Making Moral Citizens by Lucas Sharma in Review of Religious Research. @UNC_Press
@YAppelbaum Can you blame them, though? Between all the ads and the mid-story promos for other magazine content ("Explore the November 2024 issue." "Recommended Reading."), there were more than a dozen things on the page trying to pull my attn away from the article I was reading (I finished)