August 2020 Bookclub Pick
One of the first things you learn in Deirdre Mask’s The Address Book is that “most households in the world don’t have street addresses.”
How Extreme Wealth Spreads Disease and How the Rest Cope
by Ehsan Zaffar
There is an argument that the pandemic is an equalizer. It does not care who is infected. This is true. But how different American populations respond to the virus uncovers the deep economic, class, and intersecting gender and racial inequalities in the United States.
How Do the Rich Spend Their Money and Why Has It Changed?
Is conspicuous consumption a thing of the past? What are today’s wealthy spending their money on? In today’s episode of Our American Discourse, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett helps us walk a mile in the shoes of the spending habits of today’s “aspirational class.”
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