Rachel Sherman, Author at Public Seminar

Interviews

Can Philanthropy Be Revolutionary?

A conversation with Amy Schiller about The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller and Rachel Sherman

Amy Schiller sits down with Rachel Sherman to talk about how her newest book, The Price of Humanity, seeks to rescue philanthropy....

How (Some) Rich People Work Toward Redistribution

Sociologist Rachel Sherman talks to Guillermina Altomonte about “class traitors” challenging how we think about wealth

October 27, 2021 • by Guillermina Altomonte and Rachel Sherman

By all measures we live in an era defined by profound inequality. Most recently, while millions of Americans lost their jobs and became poorer during the pandemic, U.S. billionaires became $1.8 trillion richer. Rachel Sherman, Professor of Sociology at The New School, has long been interested in how the wealthy ...

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

An excerpt from Rachel Sherman’s new book

September 11, 2017 • by Rachel Sherman

Scott told me he had been self-conscious about his wealth since he was a child. He recalled feeling sensitive to comments classmates and others would make about the size of his family’s house. He said, “I just felt like, ‘Yeah, this is kind of different. And, it’s something to hide.’” ...