Jeffrey Parker
@jnparker.bsky.social
NC to NOLA via Chicago.
Urban sociology, doughnuts, indie rock—order depends on the day.
Views my own, but ultimately a singular instantiation of the collective process of knowledge production, so really who’s to say.
https://www.jeffreynparker.com
Urban sociology, doughnuts, indie rock—order depends on the day.
Views my own, but ultimately a singular instantiation of the collective process of knowledge production, so really who’s to say.
https://www.jeffreynparker.com
Simmel as marriage counselor is so messy.
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Simmel as marriage counselor is so messy.
Thoughts, @durkheimsays.bsky.social?
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Thoughts, @durkheimsays.bsky.social?
People who are upset because they got their hopes up that MJ Lenderman was actually going to get a Grammy nomination:
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
People who are upset because they got their hopes up that MJ Lenderman was actually going to get a Grammy nomination:
They also sort of bury the lede, waiting until the 38th(!) paragraph to point out that the last four Democratic presidential candidates— all moderates— have been terrible. Seems kind of important!
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They also sort of bury the lede, waiting until the 38th(!) paragraph to point out that the last four Democratic presidential candidates— all moderates— have been terrible. Seems kind of important!
Seems kind of nuts that the protests are below the digital fold on the @nytimes.com website, right?
Almost 7 million protesters were out in the streets today, and we're leading with George Santos and "How to Watch the Olympics of the Piano World"?
Almost 7 million protesters were out in the streets today, and we're leading with George Santos and "How to Watch the Olympics of the Piano World"?
October 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Seems kind of nuts that the protests are below the digital fold on the @nytimes.com website, right?
Almost 7 million protesters were out in the streets today, and we're leading with George Santos and "How to Watch the Olympics of the Piano World"?
Almost 7 million protesters were out in the streets today, and we're leading with George Santos and "How to Watch the Olympics of the Piano World"?
I thought the whole schtick with Milei and the Austrian School fetishists who love him is that markets can never fail, they can only be failed.
We shouldn’t be bailing Argentina out to prop up a failed economic project, but if we do Milei should have to wear a Keynes shirt for the rest of his life.
We shouldn’t be bailing Argentina out to prop up a failed economic project, but if we do Milei should have to wear a Keynes shirt for the rest of his life.
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I thought the whole schtick with Milei and the Austrian School fetishists who love him is that markets can never fail, they can only be failed.
We shouldn’t be bailing Argentina out to prop up a failed economic project, but if we do Milei should have to wear a Keynes shirt for the rest of his life.
We shouldn’t be bailing Argentina out to prop up a failed economic project, but if we do Milei should have to wear a Keynes shirt for the rest of his life.
And it might not even be a particularly effective mob protection racket, it seems like, considering how unpopular he is in austerity-ravaged Argentina and what happened other times he tried to interfere in Latin American politics.
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And it might not even be a particularly effective mob protection racket, it seems like, considering how unpopular he is in austerity-ravaged Argentina and what happened other times he tried to interfere in Latin American politics.
This. Is. Not. Normal.
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This. Is. Not. Normal.
At Vampire Weekend last night, the encore, before ending with Wolcott, was basically them becoming a wedding band and taking audience cover requests, whether— and they emphasized this— they knew how to play the song or not.
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
At Vampire Weekend last night, the encore, before ending with Wolcott, was basically them becoming a wedding band and taking audience cover requests, whether— and they emphasized this— they knew how to play the song or not.
The Paper managed to smuggle text from Alfred Williams’ 1915 jeremiad against managerial capitalism Life in a railway Factory into the righthand column of a newspaper page that we only see onscreen for like half a second, while a boss is talking.
September 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The Paper managed to smuggle text from Alfred Williams’ 1915 jeremiad against managerial capitalism Life in a railway Factory into the righthand column of a newspaper page that we only see onscreen for like half a second, while a boss is talking.
Incredible box score.
September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Incredible box score.
Read to the end to hear how Cass Sunstein doesn’t have a sufficiently formed opinion on Henry Kissinger in Cambodia to comment on how it relates to the idea of liberalism, a subject about which he just wrote a whole book. But that’s okay because once he said nice things about his book on Star Wars.
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Read to the end to hear how Cass Sunstein doesn’t have a sufficiently formed opinion on Henry Kissinger in Cambodia to comment on how it relates to the idea of liberalism, a subject about which he just wrote a whole book. But that’s okay because once he said nice things about his book on Star Wars.
Somehow it’s the AirPod story snuck in the middle of the most dystopic stuff imaginable that really pushes this over the edge for me:
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Somehow it’s the AirPod story snuck in the middle of the most dystopic stuff imaginable that really pushes this over the edge for me:
In case you’re wondering, yes, the crowd for a Rilo Kiley reunion tour looks exactly like you think it does.
(This is a subtweet at myself.)
(This is a subtweet at myself.)
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
In case you’re wondering, yes, the crowd for a Rilo Kiley reunion tour looks exactly like you think it does.
(This is a subtweet at myself.)
(This is a subtweet at myself.)
I assume The Argument will eventually push Matt Bruenig out for not toeing the party line of the neoliberal overlords funding the project, but at least in the meantime we got this takedown of Kelsey Piper's piece about why cash transfers don't work and we really need more means testing.
September 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I assume The Argument will eventually push Matt Bruenig out for not toeing the party line of the neoliberal overlords funding the project, but at least in the meantime we got this takedown of Kelsey Piper's piece about why cash transfers don't work and we really need more means testing.
Seeing a lot more of this than usual lately, such is saying a lot, because there’s ALWAYS a lot of this. Love you, Chicago.
September 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Seeing a lot more of this than usual lately, such is saying a lot, because there’s ALWAYS a lot of this. Love you, Chicago.
The Abundance guys are a bunch of schmucks (Logan and Molotch 1987).
September 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The Abundance guys are a bunch of schmucks (Logan and Molotch 1987).
Not usually the biggest fan of Ezra Klein, but this is absolutely spot on. The Court runs on feigned credulity.
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Not usually the biggest fan of Ezra Klein, but this is absolutely spot on. The Court runs on feigned credulity.
Come on, y'all. This test is obviously a joke for many more important reasons than what I'm about to point out, but one of these choices has four words, not three.
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Come on, y'all. This test is obviously a joke for many more important reasons than what I'm about to point out, but one of these choices has four words, not three.
Just absolutely undefeated.
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just absolutely undefeated.
Obviously stuff like this popping up every day on your phone isn’t the thing that MOST makes life feel like a Don DeLillo novel, but it’s not helping.
August 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Obviously stuff like this popping up every day on your phone isn’t the thing that MOST makes life feel like a Don DeLillo novel, but it’s not helping.
Durkheim was particularly messy.
Beyond him insulting any discipline that dared not be sociology and Marx writing burn books about the Young Hegelians, there are like three devastating insults per page in The Second Sex, which I guess is what happens when you spend that much time with Sartre.
Beyond him insulting any discipline that dared not be sociology and Marx writing burn books about the Young Hegelians, there are like three devastating insults per page in The Second Sex, which I guess is what happens when you spend that much time with Sartre.
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Durkheim was particularly messy.
Beyond him insulting any discipline that dared not be sociology and Marx writing burn books about the Young Hegelians, there are like three devastating insults per page in The Second Sex, which I guess is what happens when you spend that much time with Sartre.
Beyond him insulting any discipline that dared not be sociology and Marx writing burn books about the Young Hegelians, there are like three devastating insults per page in The Second Sex, which I guess is what happens when you spend that much time with Sartre.
Whatever you think about what he did in office, Obama once had good instincts on retail politics.
The only people this pablum appeals to are the people literally in the room at the elite DNC fundraiser he said it at and maybe a couple dozen of Ezra Klein's personal friends.
The only people this pablum appeals to are the people literally in the room at the elite DNC fundraiser he said it at and maybe a couple dozen of Ezra Klein's personal friends.
July 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Whatever you think about what he did in office, Obama once had good instincts on retail politics.
The only people this pablum appeals to are the people literally in the room at the elite DNC fundraiser he said it at and maybe a couple dozen of Ezra Klein's personal friends.
The only people this pablum appeals to are the people literally in the room at the elite DNC fundraiser he said it at and maybe a couple dozen of Ezra Klein's personal friends.