Monthly Archives: May 2020

Patrimony and Bureaucracy: Explaining the Age of Trump

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Seth Abrutyn

And now for something completely different…The Daily Beast recently reported that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it… … Continue reading →

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Cultural Trauma and Total Social Facts

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Seth Abrutyn

Since Durkheim, sociology has had the habit of looking at psychological phenomena and attempting to co-opt it in the name of social facts and forces. A promising phenomena, one with some relevance for the current COVID pan-pocalypse we are all … Continue reading →

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