Category: Class

Peter Frase wrote a post on class identity, among other things. The piece critiques the familiar claim that class is different from other identity categories like race and gender because the proper leftist aim is to create a classless society, not a merely class-inclusive society. Frase claims that “class” as used in the “classless society”… Continue reading Peter Frase on class identity

Amber A’Lee Frost has a post at Jacobin titled “Bro Bash.” The post has many points, but the leading one is well-summarized by that thing that goes under the title, which says “There’s nothing feminist about leaving numbers to the bros.” Frost criticizes both the tendency to categorically dismiss quantitative approaches to analyzing things and… Continue reading Class and Data

Here is an interesting project for enterprising data journalists who, as we know, are only about following the hard facts. Identify the countries with the lowest child poverty rates and see what’s going on with them. There is precedent for this kind of data journalism. Recall that time David Leonhardt endeavored to figure out whether… Continue reading Low child poverty: how does it work?

Returning to the Megan McArdle saga, I want to make a point about intergenerational class entrenchment that does not really come out of the other posts so far. So here goes. One of the interesting things about conservatives is that they seem to often sympathize with poor children in this country, but clearly have little… Continue reading Rich Parents Planned This

Twitter got real fired up today about a post I made last week. In it, I attacked a Megan McArdle piece in which she argues that providing poor people more resources would not solve the pain they experience from relationships and status and (some of them) being out of work and so on. My point… Continue reading The McArdle Paragraph