Tag: Class

Ten Years after the Crisis: The Real Nature of Speculation

What we have and haven’t learned from the 2008 financial crisis. LISA ADKINS CC0 via Pixabay The year 2018 marked a decade since the global financial crisis, an anniversary that inevitably provoked reflections on the legacy of the crash. These ruminations fixated on the path-altering 

Why Study Literature?

Reading expands our social imaginations and literary criticism can tell us why.

Flunking Out In China

How high stakes exams create hurdles that many Chinese students will never overcome.

Rethinking the Social Question

How trade agreements inscribe class hierarchies on the emerging global order.
By Michael D. Kennedy