David Brooks believes that if you want to understand the Trump backlash in 2016, you need to revisit the folks he wrote about in his 2000 book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Here […]
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Most Americans “do not learn piano from the age of five, do not attend private school” and “do not have SAT tutors”
According to Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, the members of the “aspirational class,” for all their tree-hugging and wokeness, have lost their way. Here is a taste of her piece at The Hedgehog Review: According to the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital […]
How do we have “thick” conversations when our mediums are so “thin”?
Ezra Klein talks to University of North Carolina sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. They cover a broad range of topics such as writing for public audiences, nostalgia, blogging, generational change, race, disabilities, moral panic, social class, status, blondness, smartness, and the […]