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Perception vs. Reality: Revisiting Wealth Inequality in America
This past summer, I wrote a post that shared some information about wealth inequality in the US. I was actually sharing information that had been published the summer before (in 2011). There was a...
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Can We Make “Looking Down Your Nose” a Good Thing?
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was going to be doing a post about Chrystia Freeland‘s book Plutocrats. I haven’t yet finished it, but there is something I wanted to talk about before I got to...
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Twenty Online Talks That Will Change Your Life, Part 1
A little over a week ago, I wrote a post about the 20 biggest questions in science. It turns out, The Guardian must have been on a listicle-kick because they also recently published a list of the 20...
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Poorest Canadians Spend More Than Half of Income on Food & Shelter
Just over a week ago, I saw this photo retweeted by Gerald Butts, who happens to be a senior advisor to Justin Trudeau (the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada). As I’ve spent most of my adult life...
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85 People Have As Much Wealth as 3.5 Billion People
Just think about that headline for a second… 85 people have as much wealth as 3.5 billion people. Eighty-five vs. Three and a half billion. Maybe looking at the words isn’t enough, let’s look at it in...
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Why Poor People Have Harsher Moral Judgments
Morals is certainly one of my interests, as is evidenced by my series on Michael Sandel’s book, What Money Can['t] Buy. And so, when I came across a journal article called, “A Lack of Material...
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Does Everyone Want to Attend University?
There was an op-ed in the New York Times the other week that detailed some of the economic inequality in the US. It used academic data to discuss how poorly Americans estimate the level of social...
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