(From a book written in 1947 describing children of privilege when there were far fewer of them; a description of French children of plantation owners around 1800 in the Caribbean: “There isn’t one who hasn’t the temper of the devil,…
Category: Elitism and Class
A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias
This is a hard subject to talk about. President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of “becoming American” was still operational, even for Indians who immigrated here in the 1960s. I know several. Donald Trump’s…
Protecting “Democracy in America” from Hot-Tub Socialists
Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Prize academician who was many thing to many people; social scientist, economist, and classic social liberal of the 1940s and 50s. So far as I know, however, he had nothing to do with the…