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Claude Fischer is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.
Fixing inequality is about more than addressing the income gap.
Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.
Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.
Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.
Historical segregation turns out to have been greater than we thought—and it hasn't gone away.
Americans seem likelier than other Westerners to believe the world is fair.
In true American style, Brooks understands our lives to be the products of individual will alone.
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