I want to shortly clarify one of my points from the prior post about what I called “liberal cultural space.” So the identitarian swing among liberals (and left of liberals) has been pretty successful in disciplining people from privileged identities from arguing against the seriousness of oppression that does not affect them. A man that… Continue reading Liberals and class
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Admitted fuck up Ezra Klein is less interested in inequality than you are
With no policies to explain or white papers to rewrite, Ezra Klein was sent scrambling on Friday to produce content for the Wonkblog. Working way outside any demonstrated competency he has, he produced this piece titled “Inequality isn’t ‘the defining challenge of our time’”. Now I know what you are thinking. What the hell is… Continue reading Admitted fuck up Ezra Klein is less interested in inequality than you are
Salon: Guess what, elites: Not all young people are rich
Elizabeth Stoker and I have a new post over at Salon about the stupidity of generational analysis, which is, in fact, just analysis of the well off in a given generation. A taste: A program crafted around the needs of the majority of young people would look much different, of course. Instead of droning on… Continue reading Salon: Guess what, elites: Not all young people are rich
What does the national data say about adjuncts?
The topic of adjuncts is getting some play finally. I’ve seen it bubbling up among the college Left for some time now, but now it is in the New York Times and big organizing drives are under way. In these pieces, I often see a variety of statistics thrown about, but never the statistics I… Continue reading What does the national data say about adjuncts?
Grudge Match: Mike Konczal and I on the Graduate Tax
Over at the CUNY advocate, Konczal and I have a back and forth on the idea of a graduate tax (sometimes called Pay It Forward). The first two pieces were written a while ago, so they may be somewhat dated (e.g. in student debt figures). But overall they are good. My impression was that there… Continue reading Grudge Match: Mike Konczal and I on the Graduate Tax