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Class Anxiety: Parasite and Joker
A couple of weeks after the South Korean film Parasite won both Best Foreign Film and Best Picture, Donald Trump went on what the Washington Post called a “nationalistic cultural” rant about the film’s awards. He was upset that a … Continue reading
1930s Redux? The Working Class and the Economic Crisis
The current economic crisis is the result of the financial practices of the past decade, but we talk about it as if it were a new thing. We also focus on what the crisis means for banks, insurance companies, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, class resentment, economic crisis, social change, subprime mortgages
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