The End of TSI

When we started this blog over two years ago, we had several goals in mind. The first was to try to bring classical liberal ideas into areas of sociology we thought could use a good injection of heterodox thought. Whether it was Brian’s writings on social work, David’s writings on culture and immigration, or my attempts to bring Austrian economics in economic sociology and public choice into political sociology, we really wanted to push the boundaries of how sociologists thought about these fields. Secondly, we wanted to challenge our classical liberal friends to become more critical of themselves both analytically and ideologically. We have seen the world beyond Chicago and it is wonderful. Lastly, we wanted to challenge ourselves in an open intellectual environment where people take ideas seriously. The sociological blogosphere is especially great for this and we’ve learned a lot from our friends at other blogs.

With these goals in mind, we have decided to bring TSI to an end after we began blogging here more than two years ago. I’m not going to say that I’m said to announce this because I feel like we have reached all of the above goals in this time.  The blog has been a source of great ideas, conversations, and debates among the three of us and beyond. Of course there are limits to the amount of utility you can squeeze from writing short posts from time to time. We are all at points in our personal and professional lives where blogging has come second to other responsibilities and opportunities. Instead of letting slowly burn out, we decided it would just be best to officially end it now as we move on to bigger and better things.

We want to thank everyone who has read this blog over the years and interacted with us on some level. You guys rock!

• Josh McCabe (on behalf of the TSI gang)