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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles On Books and Publishing

“Boosted!”, my review of Blair Kamin’s Who Is The City For?, is up at the New York Review of Architecture.

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Cheap Restaurants Are The Canaries In The Coal Mine

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On Race, Brandon Johnson, and Chicago’s Mayoral Election

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Today

Excerpt: I see less and less hope for the U.S with every passing day.

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On Race, Class, and Education

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created R. Kelly

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On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches? 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Hate Crime Legislation

On Adam Toledo As A Child

How different would our responses be if Toledo had been an adult facing the police and dropping the gun in exactly the same situation?

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On Guilt and Vaccinations

Guilt?  We have no time for it.