class

3 articles

The Housing Data Is a Class Map

The divergence in American housing markets between ownership-accessible and ownership-inaccessible populations is not a supply problem or an interest rate problem — it is a structural class formation that is locking in inequality across generations.

Catherine OloweMarch 18, 20268 min read

Ideas

The Case Against Meritocracy

The system we built to replace aristocracy has become a new aristocracy — one that is more entrenched, more self-righteous, and more damaging than the one it replaced.

Leila FarahaniFebruary 5, 202613 min read

Society

The Class Ceiling

Professional America has spent a decade reckoning with race and gender. It has barely begun to reckon with class — and the omission has consequences for both diversity and equity.

James CartwrightJanuary 15, 202613 min read