Alexander Riley

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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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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Alexander Riley

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

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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......

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Alexander Riley

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,......

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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......

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Alexander Riley

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

• Racism
• Critical Theory

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