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Capitalism

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 ...

Reproduction At The End Of Humanity

Refusing Apocalypse and Dismantling The Threat Of The New

August 28, 2019 • by Faith Taylor

My interest in this growing sense of reproductive unease has been nourished by research into the impact of housing insecurity on millennials’ intimate lives. Here, generational inequality generates feelings of thwartedness across a range of experiences -- romantic partnerships are doomed by the inability to leave a parental home, barriers ...

The Futility of Inclusion in the Absence of Access

Who belongs in Provincetown, Massachusetts?

December 5, 2017 • by Mia Cliggott-Perlt

Another, and perhaps more significant, distinguishing feature of Provincetown is its identity as one of the country’s most popular LGBTQA vacation destinations. With the highest rate of same-sex couples in the country, 163 per 1,000 according to the US Census, Provincetown is often referred to as the “gay capital of ...