Tag: class

Class as Part of Diversity

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 25, 2021

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 of diverse hiring practices is important. But I think that […]

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There’s One Big Fight for Justice

By Erik Loomis

On March 24, 2021

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 a northern community and I can see why

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Who Does Free Trade Screw Over the Most?

By Erik Loomis

On January 16, 2021

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 that elite pundits love

Trump and Class

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 24, 2020

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 jobs were gone. That was far from the whole reason–of […]

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Imagine a World Where the Nation’s Most Prominent Leftist Publication Finally Turned Away from Counterproductive “Class Not Race” Analysis. Ah, What a World That Would Be

By Erik Loomis

On September 1, 2018

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 c

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Podcasting

By Erik Loomis

On May 24, 2018

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 a broad audience. The subject was “Th

Building a Multi-Racial Class-Based Coalition

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 16, 2016

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 media’s preoccupation with these voters—over, say, working class people of […]

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We Need a Good Argument Unrelated to the Election. This Should Do Just Fine.

By Erik Loomis

On November 7, 2016

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 does not

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Trump Supporters: It’s Both Race and Class

By Erik Loomis

On August 31, 2016

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 who hate welfare progr

How to Get Drafted as a Quarterback in the NFL

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 14, 2016

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 more than double the median values: Goff, Hackenberg, Carson Wentz, […]

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Class as Part of the American Freedom Struggle

By Erik Loomis

On December 8, 2015

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 they are unable to retir

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The Politics of Angaleena Presley’s American Middle Class

By Erik Loomis

On July 17, 2015

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 over twenty years creates same-soun

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