sociologist, author of books on gender and sports, men and feminism, gender-based violence, war and peace. New book examines 120 years of high school yearbooks: THE HIGH SCHOOL: SPORTS, SPIRIT, AND CITIZENS, 1903-2024.
https://www.thehighschoolbook.com/
Michael Messner
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I hadn't imagined when I wrote this piece three months ago that Trump would be forced to remove his name from the Kennedy Center. I hope the momentum continues with other places he has scrawled his moniker publicly, like a spoiled bully.
Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
and consider also, on another side of the ledger, all of the cuts to health, food assistance, clean energy, education, US AID. This is a massive shift of resources from human needs to war.
It's an excellent time to make a contribution to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Soon, High school students will soon take part in a long tradition in American education: receiving yearbooks at the end of the school year. As a sociologist, I have studied high school yearbooks as time capsules for understanding our past. theconversation.com/high-school-...
Democrats dream that winning the midterms will bend the arc of history back toward justice. But that won't be enough. Social movements must lift, educate, and pressure politicians before, during, and after elections. My piece in the Santa Fe New Mexican: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
Targeting civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure has become the new norm in Israeli and U.S. wars in the Middle East. These used to be called war crimes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Here is a piece I co-authored with sociologist Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, based on our conversations with detained men in a New Mexico ICE detention center. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/this-is-life...
I wrote about recent harmful actions by Schumer, Spanberger, Polis, and Sherrill, as well as how politicians who oppose the administration might think about their mission right now.
Uncertainty. Fear. Boredom. Time in These Facilities Is Worse Than Prison
