Class & Inequality

Time for a Wealth Tax?

The current tax system in the United States leaves vast differences in wealth and power largely untouched.

  • Edward Wolff

Hype or Help?

Globalization and the Fight over Labor Standards

  • Alice H. Amsden

Race, Class, and the Democrats

A top White House pollster has written an apology for Clinton’s presidency. He had lots of work to do.

  • Ronnie Dugger

Equality and Responsibility

Can egalitarians take the idea of personal responsibility seriously?

  • John Roemer
with responses from
  • T. M. Scanlon
  • Robert M. Solow
  • Samuel Scheffler
  • Richard A. Epstein
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
  • Eric Maskin
  • Arthur Ripstein
  • S. L. Hurley
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum

Reinventing the Welfare State

Welfare reform is not just for policy wonks. It’s about the world of work and family we will pass on to the next generation.

  • Nancy Fraser
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • Lawrence Mead

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals, Part 2

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • bell hooks
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Regina Austin
  • Selwyn Cudjoe
  • Joshua Cohen

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Is There a Right to Be Homeless?

Current advocacy is taking a seriously wrong turn.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Eugene Rivers’s Challenge: A Response

  • Eugene Genovese

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • bell hooks
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Cornel West
  • Anthony Appiah

On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

A response to Noam Chomsky.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III

Humanizing Capitalism

It’s trickier than we thought.

  • Robert H. Frank

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

  • Harold Bloom
  • Ellen Spirer

Meals Without Grace

Sugar and fat in American eating. 

  • Sidney W. Mintz

The Power of Taste

Food, class, and culture in modern France.

  • Pierre Bourdieu

Ethnicity and Education

The politics of black education.

  • Tony Hill
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