Our Social Structure is Rigged

Our Social Structure is Rigged

“It’s structure vs. agency,” my professor said to me, as if that cleared everything up. It didn’t. It was my first week of graduate school in sociology, and I had no idea what he was talking about. Fast-forward three years, and I’m now teaching an...
The History of Taxes, in One Mega-Rich Family

The History of Taxes, in One Mega-Rich Family

David Rockefeller has just passed away. You may have already heard that news. You may have not. America’s major media outlets haven’t treated Rockefeller’s death — at age 101 — as a top-of-the-news story. How things change. Once upon a time, any breaking news that...