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“Intensive parenting is a way for especially affluent white mothers to make sure their children are maintaining their advantaged position in society,” said Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at Indiana University and author of “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School.”

I guess especially affluent mother of color don't do this? NYT conflating race and class to divide people again.

kingraoul3on Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

I don't think that's systemic analysis, the governmental form of Republican Rome was based on small freehold farmers. Once they were displaced by the slave-powered Latifundia, the Homo Novus would have find a way to translate their economic power into political power, displacing the patrician class.

kingraoul3on Review of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny

The Senate binned Republicanism when they murdered the Gracchi.

kingraoul3on China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft

Because their competitors are doing so, and would be able to outcompete them at the point of sale based on price.

kingraoul3on Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]

Thanks to the PRC!

kingraoul3on US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

And the U.S.!

kingraoul3on US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

That rosy picture is totally divorced from the actual historical course of Capitalist development.

kingraoul3on The extraordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey

The Iliad and The Odyssey draw pretty murky moral conclusions.

kingraoul3on The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016)

That's assuming the consequent though.

kingraoul3on Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback

This ignores the natural tendency toward oligopoly in mature markets.

kingraoul3on VC from Asia is skyrocketing

China?? I heard they were bad though?

kingraoul3on The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

Meanwhile, in the real world, it is the demand of Capital to grow at %6 a year regardless of the health of the overall economy that is fueling the attacks on the social safety net.

kingraoul3on The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem

And with a wave of her magic wand and the enunciation of the magic words "Ceteris Paribus", the Free Market Fairy made hookworm in Alabama disappear.