Class & Inequality

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

Can Working Families Ever Win?

If we do not take the needs of working families as a keystone, the gaps between poor and rich children will only grow wider.

  • Jody Heymann
with responses from
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Anne L. Alstott
  • Joan Tronto
  • James P. Comer
  • Theda Skocpol
  • Lotte Bailyn
  • William A. Galston
  • Susan Moller Okin
  • Karen Nussbaum
  • Isabelle Ferreras
  • Thomas A. Kochan
  • Myra Marx Ferree
  • Bradley K. Googins
  • Jodi Grant
  • Frances Fox Piven

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

How we can ensure economic security for all Americans

  • J. Larry Brown
  • Larry W. Beeferman

Stepping Up Labor Standards

Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • Charles Sabel
  • Archon Fung
with responses from
  • Robin Broad
  • Pranab Bardhan
  • Mark Levinson
  • Kaushik Basu
  • David Moberg
  • Heather White
  • Guy Standing
  • Ian Ayres

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

  • Erik Olin Wright
  • Rachel Dwyer

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

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Business and Democracy

Paul Buhle’s Taking Care of Business and Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle’s Democracy is Power  

  • J. W. Mason

Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

The Future of Affirmative Action

We need to situate the conversation about race, gender, and affirmative action in a wider account of democratic opportunity.

  • Susan Sturm
  • Lani Guinier
with responses from
  • Stephen Steinberg
  • Howard Gardner
  • Mary C. Waters
  • Paul Osterman
  • Ward Connerly
  • Maureen A. Scully & Deborah M. Kolb
  • Michael J. Piore
  • Peter Sacks
  • Peter Cappelli

Moving Out of the Ghetto

The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Robert Coles
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Gary Orfield
  • James E. Rosenbaum
  • Alexander Polikoff

A Basic Income for All

It’s the best way to secure real freedom and justice for everyone.

  • Philippe Van Parijs
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Herbert A. Simon
  • Wade Rathke
  • Emma Rothschild
  • Edmund S. Phelps
  • Brian Barry
  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Anne L. Alstott
  • Ronald Dore
  • Fred Block
  • Robert E. Goodin
  • Katherine McFate
  • Peter Edelman
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Claus Offe

Educating a Democracy

The demands of the 21st century, as well as the demands of democratic life, are best met by preserving plural definitions of a good education.

  • Deborah Meier
with responses from
  • Abigail Thernstrom
  • Bob Chase
  • Gary B. Nash
  • Linda Nathan
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Bill Ayers
  • Theodore Sizer

Real Tax Reform

The case for a progressive consumption tax

  • Edward J. McCaffery

The New Politics of Consumption

Somebody needs to be for quality of life, not just quantity of stuff.

  • Juliet B. Schor
with responses from
  • Robert H. Frank
  • James Twitchell
  • Jack Gibbons
  • Clair Brown
  • Betsy Taylor
  • Douglas B. Holt
  • Craig J. Thompson
  • Michèle Lamont & Virág Molnár
  • Lawrence Mishel & Jared Bernstein & John Schmitt

The Car As Hero

Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

  • Neil Shister

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

  • Jeff Gates
with responses from
  • Sewin Chan & Henry Schneider & Joseph Tracy
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • William H. Simon

Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

Development—but at What Cost?

An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).

  • Shiv Visvanathan
  • Jay Mandle

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle

Going Public

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

  • David Donnelly
  • Janice Fine
  • Ellen S. Miller

Du Bois for the 1990s

William Julius Wilson has provided a searing analysis of inner-city collapse. Can we rise to his challenge?

  • Ira Katznelson

Solving the New Inequality

Income inequality has skyrocketed. What can policy do about it?

  • Richard B. Freeman
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • Heidi Hartmann
  • Paul R. Krugman
  • Michael J. Piore
  • James Tobin
  • James J. Heckman
  • Ernesto Cortes, Jr.

A Better Democracy, A Better Economy

The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.

  • Adam Przeworski

Reviving Unions

With all that unions are up against, only a radically different approach can help us start winning again.

  • Stephen Lerner
with responses from
  • Lynn Williams
  • Staughton Lynd
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • Janice Fine
  • Joel Rogers
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