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Podcast: New Books in Sociology
Episode: Joan C. Williams, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Description: An eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US.Is there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the class dynamics driving American politics.The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back (St. Ma...