Sociology Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:25:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Fresh Air Interview: Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/dont-sanitize-how-our-government-created-ghettos/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:22:13 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5340 “We have a myth today that the ghettos in metropolitan areas around the country are what the Supreme Court calls ‘de-facto’ — just the accident of the fact that people have not enough income to move into middle class neighborhoods or because real estate agents steered black and white families to different neighborhoods or because … Continue reading Fresh Air Interview: Don't 'Sanitize' How Our Government Created Ghettos →

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]]> The Imprisoner’s Dilemma https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/the-imprisoners-dilemma/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:29:16 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5323 There are 2.3 million Americans in prison or jail. The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its prisoners. One in three black men can expect to spend time in prison. There are 2.7 million minors with an incarcerated parent. The imprisonment rate has grown by more than 400 percent … Continue reading The Imprisoner’s Dilemma →

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]]> Pardon Pot Prisoners? https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/5293/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:39:47 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5293 On Monday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 federal prisoners locked up for nonviolent drug offenses, raising the total number of commutations he’s issued to 89. The decision came 15 months after former Attorney General Eric Holder announced the president’s request to prioritize clemency applications from nonviolent, well-behaved, oversentenced drug offenders. While there’s still … Continue reading Pardon Pot Prisoners? →

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]]> The Most Diverse Cities Are Often The Most Segregated https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/ Tue, 12 May 2015 05:03:42 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5224 Nate Silver at 538 walks us through America’s most/least diverse and segregated cities. Data Power!

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]]> Touch Screen Generation https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/29/touch-screen-generation/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:50:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5050 In the Atlantic Hannah Rosin offers a unique insight into kids and technology.

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]]> The Case Against High-School Sports https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/the-case-against-high-school-sports/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:22:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5025 “In these communities, the dominant argument is usually that sports lure students into school and keep them out of trouble—the same argument American educators have made for more than a century. And it remains relevant, without a doubt, for some small portion of students. But at this moment in history, now that more than 20 … Continue reading The Case Against High-School Sports →

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]]> Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/greed-is-good-a-300-year-history-of-a-dangerous-idea/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:12:25 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5019 “But for the most part, I don’t think we don’t say very much about greed, not comfortably at least. Perhaps that is the inevitable price of an economic system that relies on the vigor of self-interested pursuits, that it instills a kind of moral quietism in the face of avarice, for whether out of a … Continue reading Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea →

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]]> Coates' Case for Reparations https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/coates-case-for-reparations/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:55:52 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5007 This journalistic tour de force is the best piece I’ve read this year. Coates puts the question squarely into the reader’s face and, in so doing, changes the dialogue about reparations. Chapters I. “So That’s Just One Of My Losses” II.  “A Difference of Kind, Not Degree” III. “We Inherit Our Ample Patrimony” IV. “The … Continue reading Coates' Case for Reparations →

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]]> I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System https://daniellazar.com/2014/01/04/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/ Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:16:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4796 A former prosecutor fights the law and lets it win. Courageous, and kind of stupid. But informative.

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]]> Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty https://daniellazar.com/2014/01/04/minimum-wage-was-once-enough-to-keep-a-family-of-3-out-of-poverty/ Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:05:30 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4792 Since the 1980s, the federal minimum wage has kept pace with neither inflation, nor the rise of the average worker’s paycheck. That means that while a federal minimum wage in 1968 could have lifted a family of three above the poverty line, now it can’t even do that for a parent with one child, working full-time, … Continue reading Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty →

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