Publications
Recent Articles and Interviews:
Turn the other tweet: NYPD not heeding Adams' call to censor violence on social media - Gothamist
'It stays in your mind': When crime goes viral, fear of crime goes up - WNYC
Media Fearmongering and Covid Vaccines - CNN
Who Knew Lockdowns Would Make It Easier for Introverts to Make Friends? - The Wall Street Journal
The Greatest Generation Redux? - Inside Higher Ed
Racism, Contagion, and the Dangers We Pose to One Another - The New Yorker
Covid-19 pandemic releases a range of emotions from boredom to fear - The Weekend Australian
Should Colleges Reopen? - The Chronicle of Higher Education
It’s fear, not coronavirus, that’s roiling world markets and upending daily life - Los Angeles Times
Culture of Fear and the Presidential Scare - Contexts
Mocking Trump Is Political Folly - Los Angeles Times
Barry Glassner on the 'fear-monger-in-chief' - CNN Business
Barry Glassner on The Jim Jeffries Show
Op-Ed: Take it from a magician: Trump isn’t trying to distract us, he’s misdirecting us - Los Angeles Times
Students on both ends of the economic spectrum face challenges in college - Washington Post
How scared should we be? - BBC
Op-Ed: College kids aren’t ‘supercilious snowflakes’ - Los Angeles Times
Do Security Systems Make Your Home Safer? - New York Times
Technical or Cultural Courses? Students Need Both - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Fear Has Always Been a Marketing Tool in the U.S. - New York Times
Books:
The Culture of Fear
The Gospel of Food
Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work
Career Crash: America's New Crisis-And Who Survives
A Rationalist Methodology for the Social Sciences
Discourse in the Social Sciences: Strategies for Translating Models of Mental Illness