Category: Class

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

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

I wrote a post about how the identitarian framework has a class problem, doesn’t take class identity seriously, and doesn’t treat those with that identity anything like any of the other identities within the framework. Sarah Kendzior on twitter thought it would be a good idea to prove just how true that was. In so… Continue reading Sarah Kendzior Performatively Makes My Point on Working Class Erasure

People have been passing around this piece from Mark Fisher, which is about a lot of things, one of which is who gets to speak (or identify) as the poor working class. In particular, Russel Brand apparently has a lower working class background, but now is a millionaire due to his comedy, which raises the… Continue reading Identitarianism and the Working Class

I have finally made some use of my basic income calculator by posting this at The Atlantic. Read it.