Matt Bruenig raises some issues about poverty that I think are worth discussing. He compares two popular theories of poverty: individual and structural. Contrasting the two, Matt writes: The ...

Critical race theory has emerged as one of the most influential—and controversial—academic theories in contemporary political discourse. The discipline’s key terms, such as “systemic ...

Religion is inseparable from poverty and that is a demonstrable fact. The dire emotional conditions that excessive poverty causes its subjects ensure that the poor are always vulnerable to ideologies ...

The reason is because supply-side differences are more complimentary to poor people, and liberals are biased towards theories of poverty that are complimentary to those in poverty.

Books & the Arts; September 2, 2004; The Poverty of Theory The Poverty of Theory. Gertrude Himmelfarb is a remarkable woman. Remarkable, first, because in some respects she is a pioneer.

And I’ve become very wary of absolving theories of poverty, and some structural theories of it are very absolving – like, if only Congress would get its act together; ...

Poverty did not materialize because of blind forces, such gatherings suggested. It resulted from greed and from exploitation, a word that Desmond complained “has been scrubbed out of the poverty ...

The Vatican has released a new document calling poverty, war and the plight of migrants "threats to human dignity." But it also calls abortion, surrogacy and gender theory "grave threats" facing ...

Tonight, how to finally end poverty in America. A Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist shares his wake-up call. What he says everyone can and should be doing to lift up the over 38 million Americans ...

I’m very suspicious of absolving theories of poverty both from the left and from the right, stories that let us off the hook. And I don’t say this to induce guilt—I say this to induce action.