Class & Inequality

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor reject backroom dealmaking. Rank-and-file workers are going even further.

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

Outcomes shape opportunities.

There must be room for choice.

Public opinion doesn't support equal outcomes.

The history of debates about educational outcomes holds important lessons.

Egalitarianism raises our expectations.

Choice talk distracts from structural injustice.

The aim is a classless society, not equal outcomes.

It doesn't entail an embrace of the status quo.

Opportunities are hard to measure.

Equal opportunity theory is a flexible tool.

We should follow the Nordic model.

Final response: we need a more substantive and generous understanding of the egalitarian ideal.

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.