Kathleen Geier

In The Atlantic this month, Ta-Nehisi Coates has a powerful essay making the case for reparations. Coates’s piece doesn’t dwell on the specifics of how a reparations policy would work. His aim, instead, is to launch a broader public consideration of the lingering impact of ...

The American political system is broken, and one unmistakable sign of it is our inability to bring down soaring levels of student debt or to regulate predatory for-profit colleges. The best solution the Obama administration has been able to propose in this area is a college ...

The reasons why Jill Abramson was abruptly fired from her position as executive editor of the New York Times remain unclear, but a pay dispute is alleged to be among them. According to The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta, Abramson’s starting salary in 2011 when she began the job ...

The “trigger warning” is an innovation that seems innocuous enough, in theory. But in practice, trigger warnings have a subtle but corrosive effect on the values of intellectual inquiry and gender equality. As such, they should be firmly resisted. Trigger warnings ...

Are we seeing the emergence of a new “anti-liberal” left? That’s what The Nation’s Michelle Goldberg argued recently. She was writing about the #CancelColbert Twitter campaign, but she and others have also called attention to the other manifestations of the phenomenon, ...

[Part 2 to Geier’s earlier post, “What Piketty’s Conservative Critics Get Wrong,” here. – ed.] As a genre, the reviews of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century have been fascinating in what they reveal about the status of the economic inequality debate ...

Last month, Jamie Nesbitt Golden published a post on her website entitled “Eldercare: The Forgotten Feminist Issue.” It is, in part, a moving personal essay about the struggles of caring for ill, aging parent whose cognitive facilities are slipping away. But it’s also, as ...

On last Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, Peggy (played by Elisabeth Moss) got a raise—a big one. Peggy, who clawed her way out of the secretarial pool to become copy chief for the Sterling Cooper advertising agency, was granted a pay increase of an additional $100 per week by ...