There are some of us in the academy whose parents were not professors. But there's a whole whole lot whose parents were professors. Like, way more than you'd think, even if you expected it. This piece on how this reality can get in the way...
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I have a certain sympathy with this Labour MP Jon Trickett arguing in a Jacobin interview that the party must fight a class war than a culture war. He represents.
I know that the media loves finding white people in Youngstown and Canton to talk to about their personal lord and savior Donald Trump and repeat the economic anxiety arguments.
I still maintain with as much vigor as I did in 2016 that part of the reason Trump won is that white working class people saw in him someone who might fight for their dying industrial jobs, or at least represented their anger that those...
Jacobin's quality control has never been its strength and combined with the impossible to kill dogma among certain leftists that so-called "identity politics" are a black hole that cover up.
I was lucky enough to be on The Sound and the Furious Podcast last week, with scholars seeking to combine academia and pop culture in ways that reach out to.
The best piece I've read on Trump, the American working classes, and the path forward is this by Sam Adler-Bell. Good stuff: I’ve largely avoided this conversation until now. It’s been marked by bad faith and straw men on both sides. And I think the...
I confess that when I opened this Jacobin piece on the New Victorians creating top-down moral values through consumption, I thought, "oh great another Jacobin hot take on something that.
Here is another long essay about Trump supporters and what they see in him. The useful thing in this piece is how it identifies the divide between relatively wealthy Republicans.
Step 1: Be born wealthy: • 13 of the 15 quarterbacks grew up in homes that were valued near or above the median home value in their respective state, according to public records and online real estate figures. Seven families lived in homes that were...
I really appreciate this point Bernie Sanders made recently: People are not truly free when they are unable to feed their family,” he said. “People are not truly free when.
Above: Not the middle class The state of mainstream country music is, to say the least, a mixed bag. The Nashville radio formula that has dominated the art form for.