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
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 marke
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
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 esta
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
This Times op-ed on why people born in certain counties dominate Wikipedia entries spends a lot of words to miss the obvious answer. An excerpt: The first striking fact in the data was the enormous ge
Reading such an eloquent dissection of privilege, I can almost forget that the Atlantic also employed Megan McCardle for half a decade. But the game is rigged. I know this because I loved my craft for