William Julius Wilson

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

On John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the complex history of an oft-misunderstood political movement.

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.