Marxism as theology and eschatology of modernity
“Darwin gave atheists their story of genesis; Marx gave them their eschatology.” – Views expressed by a cleric in…
The Pledge of Allegiance in The American School: A Functional Analysis
The Controversy A California public school teacher posted a video on TikTok, which went viral on social media and…
A Bayesian Model of Lynching
Collective violence spreads through social learning among autonomous agents, especially when decisions of the observing agents are not simultaneous, but…
Draft: Lynched in the Name of the Cow – An appraisal of Cow-related Violence in India
This paper sheds light on the recent spike in communal violence in India by theorizing unorganized violence as an epidemic….
Working Paper: Corrective behavior among mainstream parties as a vote winning strategic response to niche challengers
This paper analyzes how mainstream parties respond to their niche challengers. We know that vote seeking behavior among mainstream parties…
MPSA Draft: Constituency Ties and the Rebel Group Behavior Amidst Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are increasingly overlapping with ongoing conflicts creating what scholars call dual disasters. However, these disasters also create’windows of…
The Basic Requirements for Grad School Admissions
It is my second blog in the series on graduate education in the USA. I previously wrote an introductory post…
Applying to Grad Schools (MA/PhD programs) in the USA?
Admission season has already kicked off, and my friends have started asking me questions about the graduate programs in the…
Kör Arabın Şarkısı / Kor Ərəbin Mahnısı
Ne aşk olaydı, ne aşık, ne nazlı afet olaydı, Ne halk olaydı, ne halık, ne aşk-ı hasret olaydı. Ne dert…
O mahur beste çalar Müjgan’la ben ağlaşırız
Şenlik dağıldı bir acı yel kaldı bahçede yalnız O mahur beste çalar Müjgan’la ben ağlaşırız Gitti dostlar şölen bitti ne…