Musa al-Gharbi
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology, Columbia University in the City of New York
Research Associate, Heterodox Academy
Chapter Member: New York City SSN
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About Musa
Al-Gharbi's research explores how we think about, talk about, and produce knowledge about social phenomena including race, inequality, social movements, extremism, policing, national security, foreign policy and domestic U.S. political contests.
Contributions
Why Dissatisfied People Settle for the Status Quo
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In the News
Opinion: "Too Noxious for Tenure?," Musa al-Gharbi, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 1, 2019.
Opinion: "Trump's Proposal to Enforce Campus Free Speech Will Only Hurt Conservatives," Musa al-Gharbi, The Washington Post,
Opinion: "If the Midterms were a Referendum, Trump Won," Musa al-Gharbi, The Washington Post, November 9, 2018.
Quoted by John Blake in "One Word Shows How Much We've Changed the Way We Talk About Race," CNN, June 29, 2018.
Interviewed in "A Social Scientist on the Liberal-Left Biases of Social Scientists," National Review, May 2, 2018.
Opinion: "If Conservative Views are Not Represented in Social Research, Leftists Will Suffer Most," Musa al-Gharbi, Times Higher Education, March 29, 2018.
Quoted by Thomas B. Edsall in "Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?," New York Times, January 18, 2018.
Quoted by Conor Brady in "A Rough Ride ahead with Trump as Default Driver," The Times, November 6, 2017.
Research discussed by , in "This Behavioral Phenomenon is One of the Reasons Trump Will Probably Win Reelection in 2020," Mic, September 3, 2017.
Opinion: "It's Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most when Free Speech is Curtailed on Campus," Musa al-Gharbi, The Atlantic, July 8, 2017.
Opinion: "Forget about Impeachment—Donald Trump Will Likely be President until 2024," Musa al-Gharbi, Quartz, May 17, 2017.
Opinion: "Trump Will Likely Win Reelection in 2020," Musa al-Gharbi, The Conversation, May 10, 2017.
Opinion: "The Democratic Party is Facing a Demographic Crisis," Musa al-Gharbi, The Conversation, February 27, 2017.
Opinion: "In the Age of Trump, Thank God for James Comey," Musa al-Gharbi, Huffington Post, February 3, 2017.
Opinion: "Racial Profiling is a Bad Counterterrorism Strategy," Musa al-Gharbi, The American Conservative, September 21, 2016.
Quoted by Colbert I. King in "The Decline of the Black Republican," The Washington Post, September 2, 2016.
Opinion: "Why Aren’t There More Black Republicans?," Musa al-Gharbi, The American Conservative, January 18, 2016.
Guest on NewsMax TV, September 21, 2015.
Opinion: "The Case for an Unprincipled Foreign Policy," Musa al-Gharbi, Wilson Quarterly, July 26, 2015.
Opinion: "There is No Social Change without Coercion: Race, Baltimore, and How Violence Makes Nonviolence Possible," Musa al-Gharbi, Salon, May 2, 2015.
Research discussed by , in "The Mexican Drug War Has Killed More Americans Than ISIS Or Ebola Ever Could," Elite Daily, October 21, 2014.
Opinion: "Mexican Drug Cartels are Worse than ISIL," Musa al-Gharbi, Al Jazeera America, September 20, 2014.
Publications
"Race and the Race for the White House: On Social Research in the Age of Trump" The American Sociologist (2018): 1-24.
Demonstrates how research on Trump and his supporters has been systematically distorted by researchers' own deep revulsion towards the man and what he represents to them, and by strong priors about what kind of person would vote for Trump, and what they would be motivated by.