Rock Creek, Montana One nice thing about being mostly off-the-grid for a bit is missing the daily craziness of the emerging political campaign in the United States. Reading the latest news of Donald Trump’s assault and disrespect of the Muslim parents of a fallen soldier in Iraq in 2004 was simply mind-boggling. Is there really …
Class Conflict on the Creek?
Rock Creek, Montana More is changing on the creek than the climate, it would seem. Having just finished Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, I found her whispering in my ear as I tried to get my arms around the changing scene in this beautiful spot, where I’ve found …
Class in America – It’s Every Where!
Rock Creek, Montana Even in this age of fierce and abiding inequality and concentration of wealth, in the United States we undoubtedly have more “class deniers,” than we have “climate deniers.” LSU Professor Nancy Isenberg is fearless and uncompromising in her determination to call as many of them out as she can in her book, …