Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
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Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
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The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante
Two new books reveal how a 1980s shooting reflected rising right-wing attitudes in a rapidly gentrifying New York.
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Capital Ideas
Two books on the history of capitalism provide lessons for how to tame it.
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Notes for Next Time
My generation got a very good economic deal. We need to restore opportunities to our children and grandchildren, or there will be more recruits to MAGA.
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‘A Foreclosing of Options’: Racial Health Inequality in Washington, D.C.
Princeton’s Sanyu Mojola examines the public-health issues confronting America’s capital city.
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Sundance Is Over. Long Live Sundance.
Will there be life after Utah (and Robert Redford) for America’s biggest film festival?
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
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The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
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Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.