Simon Torracinta

1 month ago | bostonreview.net | Simon Torracinta |Brent Cebul |Lily Geismer |Dylan Gottlieb

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of Chicago Press. A full video of the event is below. The transcript that follows is of the second half of the event, with moderated discussion. It has been lightly edited for clarity.

2 months ago | parapraxismagazine.com | Simon Torracinta

Maslow’s theory did not win over the hard-nosed experimentalists of his own discipline. The empirical basis of his theory was decidedly thin, and from the outset he hedged his claims, writing that the “fixed order” of his hierarchy was “not nearly as rigid as we have implied.” But his success in articulating in elementary terms what now appeared as a basic feature of the human condition ensured that he would be taken up by far more consequential fields.

Sep 30, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Simon Torracinta

The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy Kjell Östberg Verso, $34.95 (cloth) When Bernie Sanders was asked in a 2016 Democratic presidential debate what “democratic socialism” meant to him, he responded that we should “look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway.” Hillary Clinton was unequivocal in her reply: “We are not Denmark.” Yet Sanders kept the line, and his odes to the shining example of Nordic social democracy remained an exhaustive refrain throughout his 2016 and...

Sep 25, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Lily Geismer |Simon Torracinta |Jacqueline Jones |Andrew Elrod

A New Suburban Politics A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life. ▪ Fall 2024 Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequalityby Colin GordonRussell Sage Foundation, 2023, 284 pp.

Jun 12, 2024 | portside.org | Simon Torracinta

Inequality Without Class Published June 12, 2024 Visions of InequalityFrom the French Revolution to the End of the Cold WarBranko MilanovicBelknap PressISBN: 9780674264144An academic journal article on the technicalities of tax data is not usually cause for much excitement. Yet at the end of last year, one such publication in the Journal of Political Economy set #EconTwitter afire with debate, and prompted a full column in the Economist.