We Have Never Been Middle Class – Hadas Weiss

The trouble with ordering books from Verso, though I love Verso, is that sometimes you get a book that looks really great but turns out to be someone’s dissertation. Not that dissertations are inherently bad, but they’re inherently bad for non-academics. You know what I mean. Can you really have pages where more than half …

A Brief History of Equality – Thomas Piketty

OK, so don’t listen to dry books on audio. I think that is the biggest lesson I’ve learned from this book. When I was able to maintain my attention I found the book very interesting: he talked about al the ways elites and governments created and maintained inequality through greed, slavery, and other inhumane regulations. …

The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – And How We Can Fix It – Dorothy A. Brown

Taxes! Even taxes are biased. I can barely do my taxes, so some of the finer math of deductions and credits and the marriage penalty made my brain turn off and I had to re-read in order to actually concentrate. But that’s just me. The book is excellent. Brown shows us how our tax system …