The basic difference between the period after 1973 and the previous period is that the nation's equalizing institutions - unions, public education, the welfare state broadly defined - were much weaker in the present period.

That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.

The basic thesis of The Bridge Over the Racial Divide is that there is a growing inequality in American society, and ordinary families are, in effect, getting …

So, children growing up in these poor, female-headed families are at a disadvantage, and there's research that shows that poor, female-headed families are much…

[...] nicht das Amt die Vergangenheit zu richten, die Mitwelt zum Nutzen zukunftiger Jahre zu belehren, sondern blo? zu zeigen, wie es eigentlich gewesen ist.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what is of last…

And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolit…