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The New Kid
Class / Culture / Politics / Society

The New Kid

Posted on: 05/13/202606/17/2026

Sunday night before brushing his teeth, my kid said, “There’s a new kid at school.” He was looking at me in a way that suggested I should understand the significance of that. And I thought […]

What Is Taste? A Study in a Boy of Ten
Academia / Class / Culture / Literature

What Is Taste? A Study in a Boy of Ten

Posted on: 02/25/202606/17/2026

Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of taste (taste is a function of class) may be true when taste is determined by classist institutions like The New Yorker. But Bourdieu’s reduction of taste to keeper of the social pecking order falls […]

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