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The end of the mass bourgeoisie may mean not only that mechanisms for allocation of status and wealth become less fair and transparent, but that nobody talks about them accurately,...
Every few weeks, Twitter gets consumed by an upper middle class usually white woman blowing up(or mimicking blowing up) a seemingly enviable marriage-out of boredom,pique,or vaguel...
Excited when my tweets to cross over into entirely separate/orthogonal and somewhat cryptic sets of political enmities https://t.co/CMLG9GqAyH
I was aware of it in specific instances - for example science education after Sputnik- but I don't think I appreciated until recently how much the "cult of smart" in America was an...
As USA becomes less egalitarian/more competitive overall and with less well functioning public services, outcomes for young people keep growing,with widening gaps across race,clas...
As much as people harp on rich Trump voters being guys who own car dealerships or whatever I wonder how much of our problems come from the fact that a diminishing percentage the se...
An unremarked but ultimately highly consequential political dynamic of the 2010s was the browning of the suburbs that was coincident with urban gentrification &a rededication of th...
@hpmacd Corporations now either mainly act as guardians of assets wildly divorced from their day to day functioning (like Harvard) or sitting on a radioactive pile of intellectual...
Foucault has a funny essay on Gary Becker where he says human capital is replacement of homo economics as partner of exchange with homo economicus as entrepreneur of himself, bein...
Kind of the coldest of takes here, but part of the reason the Chris Rufo CRT/trans/grooming stuff is so politically unsettling is that local public schools were more or less the on...