New Orleans As tech gazillionaires line up at Mar-de-Lago to “kiss the key,” as the papers called it, of President-elect Trump, they have to be hoping that the next administration will be nothing buy high clover for the rich, assuming that Trump will put all of this populist stuff on the back burner once …
Category: Inequity
Meritocracy on the Skids
Marble Falls David Brooks has made a living in books, New York Times columns, and the academy as a palatable social critic and commentator. He’s deeply conservative, but in a tolerable and largely unoffensive way. He’s a “never Trumper,” who goes out of his way to try and understand the Trump base; he’s …
US is Hard Country for Old People
New Orleans In the United States, there’s been a retirement crisis in front of our noses for a long time. The country depends on immigrant, often undocumented workers for farm labor, child care, healthcare, and throughout the service and manufacturing economy. Though they pay taxes and underpin the Social Security system for other elderly, …