“A girl from my home country told me such upsetting things about her life at her employers’ house that I swore to get to the bottom of it.”
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Disney Is the Happiest Place on Earth, if You Can Afford It
“Mr. Currell, a management consultant, interviewed dozens of Disney enthusiasts, historians and experts, and visited Walt Disney World, which he first experienced in 1977.”
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‘Downton Abbey’ but with NDAs: How to Be a Butler to the Super-Rich
“Inside the elite college that’s reinventing Jeeves for the 21st century.”
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An American Education: Notes from UATX
“Inside the ‘Forbidden Courses’ at the billionaire-backed University of Austin, the campus of the ‘anti woke’ commentariat.”
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The Class Politics of Instagram Face
“Plastic surgery is changing, and for an obvious reason: When in history have rich women ever wanted to look like regular ones?”
Posted inNonfiction
How I Became ‘Rich’
During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure
An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
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A Visit to Opioid Country
In this personal essay, Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
An Interview with Sarah Smarsh, Author of ‘Heartland’
The author of “Heartland,” a National Book Award longlisted memoir about growing up poor in rural America, gives her views on politics, identity, and cultural appropriation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class
“What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”