Our Egalitarian Past

Edward O’Donnell profiles the gifted thinker who led the struggle against concentrated wealth in the Gilded Age.

The Corruption of Success

Where wealth concentrates, Elizabeth Anderson reminds us,
the wealthy will see most of the rest of us as failures.

Our Race to Consume

We have no shot at sustainability, sociologist Juliet Schor helps us see, amid extreme inequality.

Segregation’s New Look

In our ever more unequal world, Stanford’s Sean Reardon details, our rich live ever more apart from the rest of us.

Two Egalitarian Spirits

British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have changed how we think about inequality.