Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict

ConclusionsGlobalisation/migration (domestic vs external inequality) and educational expansion (education vs property inequality) have created new multi-dimensional conflicts about inequality, leading to the collapse of the postwar left-vs-right party system.Why didn’t democracy reduce inequality?Because multi-dimensional coalitions are complicated.Without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it’s difficult to have the low-education, low-income voters from all origins vote for the … Continue reading Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict

Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review

"In a psychic context, racial reparations may be less obviously needed, but needed nonetheless, for those of us from white families and communities that practice racial thoughtlessness. We, too, need to study race and racism in order to understand ourselves, because the implicit attitudes about race that we have consciously and unconsciously created and accepted … Continue reading Liberatory Education | The Hedgehog Review