Chris Uggen
Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95…
- 1/3 Love is the Law is a “movement song” you’ll hear on the streets of Minneapolis. Released in 1983 by The Suburbs it was the anthem of the 2013 marriage equality movement in Minnesota. Eminently danceable, with big hooky horns, it's become our own homegrown... www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
- 2/3 ...“What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding.” The first verse speaks to love, warmth and community in 2026 just as it did in 2013 and in the 1980s. I interviewed the band around the time it was released and they were absolutely *cooking* in live shows...
- 3/3 “Well I was walking through the middle of town, And I said to myself, “What’s going on?” People breaking the law just to make ends meet, People breaking their hearts just to stay off the street, And written on the wall for everyone to see, Was “Love is the law” right there on the street…”
- The national headlines describe “fear” in Minnesota, but here on the ground it feels more like anger and resolve in the face of betrayal and intimidation. We’re “hunkering down,” not cowering, in the face of this long, cold, brutal winter. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
- Minnesotans have apparently won more Winter Olympic medals (103) than folks from any other state (because, well, winter). It may feel bittersweet when our locals step to the podium for the USA in Milano-Cortina, but I'm hoping it's a unifying moment for all of us back home in the dark winter of '26.
- Go alpine and Nordic skiers (Lindsey Vonn and Jessie Diggins!), go all you amazing hockey players and curlers, go snowboarders, go speed skaters, go biathletes, go gophers, go Frost, go Wild! www.startribune.com/meet-the-min...
- Teaching Social Movements this Term? Something for everyone in this 32 "Songs of the Siege" compilation that goes from Laamar to Bruce to Maria Isa to NOFX to Durry to Messersmith to Sparhawk to Bathtub Cig to those sweet, sweet drums on the Stone Arch Bridge. www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
- apnews.com/article/immi... Minnesota medical professionals refuse to be complicit. “One doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall.” -Dr. Lindsey Thomas
