Showing posts with label class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class. Show all posts
Friday, May 12, 2023

Why Do LIberal Reforms Hurt the Poor?

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 Is this true? Liberals propose and enact more laws, regulations, and programs than conservatives?   The poorer the citizen the more difficu...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Tattoos

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NY Times says 1/3 of Americans have a tattoo. That's a big change in the culture from my youth, when tattoos were limited to a few sail...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

College Side Entrances and Carl Van Doren

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Somehow the current scandal on the "side entrances" for college admission through fake athletic credentials or fake SAT tests remi...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Did the Elite Used To Believe in Service?

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The current assessments of George H.W. Bush's life often include a statement to the effect that in the past the elite, as exemplified by...
Monday, October 01, 2018

"Hollow Dolls" and Essentialism and My Cousin's Book

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Just finished "The Lies That Bind Us" by Appiah.  I recommend it. The lies are: creed, culture, color, class, and country.  One of...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The LUCkies

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Paul Campos suggests the "lower upper class" is a better term than "upper middle class". I agree. I don't see anyo...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Brooks: The Pictures We Have in Our Head

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In some of the commentary on David Brooks column, or rather one paragraph in his column, I think I see some different answers to the questio...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Miller and Smith--And the Course of History

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The Times had a piece on changes in the most common last names, the hook being the fact that Latino last names are moving up. What caught...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Astyk and Black Men

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Been a couple years since I linked to Sharon Astyk's blog, which it seems she only updates a couple times a year now.  Anyhow, here sh...
Friday, May 01, 2015

$14,000 Per Poor Person?

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David Brooks says Robert Samuelson reports that the federal government spends $14,000 per poor person in today's column. I don't b...

In Defense of Inequality?

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On some days I have a populist streak  On some days I have a contrarian streak. Today I was reading "The Great Escape" by Angus ...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

The Great Sharon Astyk on Reading to Kids

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Several years ago I found Ms Astyk's Casaubon's Book blog, which then was devoted to the food movement, locavores, peak oil, etc.  I...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

How the Point Zero Zero Zero Ones Live

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My wife and I visited the Rockefellers Friday, more specifically took the tour of Kykuit .  Over the years we've visited the homes of t...
Saturday, October 06, 2012

Surprising Unsurprising Fact

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Or is it "unsurprising surprising fact"?  Maybe the latter, given the evidence for widening inequality in income/wealth in the nat...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Surprising Stat of the Day

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Via Marginal Revolution, from this site: An African-American child raised in a lower-class family is 37% less likely to become a profess...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Something I'm Ready to Believe

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From Jack Shafer at Slate, in an article on the NPR fund-raising thing: If you've ever hung out with rich people, you know they have ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

On Class, and the Lack Thereof

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I recommend Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet , a book of essays written as he became immobilized in body by Lou Gehrig's disease. It...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Back When Being a Millionaire Meant Something

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From the 1930 blog: " A record 511 people reported income over $1M in 1928; 26 reported income over $5M, with 11 of those in NY Sta...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Downward Mobility [Updated]

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The Post reports on a Pew study which says black middle class children more often grow up in poorer neighborhoods than do white middle clas...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Decline of Hierarchy

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For some reason the other day I got to thinking about cars. (Maybe it was prompted by the bankruptcy of GM.) In the American Revolution, on...