I was trying to watch the moment when it happened but missed it. I just noticed that I shot past a thousand essays on Freedom and Reason. One thousand and four essays! For the most part, these essays were written over the last five years when I resurrected my blog at WordPress after retiring my Google Blogger site several years ago. Given the length and quality of most of these essays, that’s a lot of time and energy. (You may disagree about the quality, but you have to admit that there are a lot of words on these pages.)
I still have more Blogger posts to move over, but I have been too busy writing almost daily WordPress essays to dwell on the old stuff. Moreover, I have nearly a hundred draft essays that I haven’t been able to finish for various reasons. The main reason is that the things that are happening in the here-and-now are prioritized over things, but word-smithing is also a big hangup.
Why a blog? The reason I shifted from writing for academic presses (I have quite a few of those types of publications on my vita) to writing blogs is because (a) the turn around time in publishing a scientific article is ridiculous and (b) my discipline has been captured by woke ideology. I couldn’t get past the gatekeepers today. That’s okay, because blogs are not just the future, they are the present. It is rapidly becoming the norm that this is the way academics communicate their ideas to the public—and there’s no pay wall! Blogging lets me share sociological analysis of historical events and social trends in real-time and in an accessible way. It also allows me to share sociological insights in a manner accessible to popular readers.
So check out my blog! Freedom and Reason. If you open a WordPress account (it’s free), you can subscribe to my blog and like my posts. You can post your own blogs, too! Let me know if you do and I will subscribe! Keep in mind that I don’t have a copy editor, so sometimes the writing gets a little sloppy, especially if I am writing in a white heat. If you see spelling errors, dropped words, or grammatical snafus, let me know so I can correct them. That’s another thing that’s so wonderful about digital publishing: you can fix errors and typos.
Also watch for more podcasts and vidcasts. I have established a Rumble channel and plan to go bigger in the future with this type of content.
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