Jerome Karabel

Jerome Karabel, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005). He is currently at work on a book titled Outlier Nation: The Roots of American Distinctiveness and How It Shapes Us Today. (September 2019)

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

The reasons why the Elaine Massacre of 1919 has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, speak to a legacy of white supremacy in the US and ruthless suppression of labor activism that disfigures American society to this day.

September 30, 2019

Affirmative Action: An Exchange

December 7, 1989 issue

The Reasons Why

Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?

by Werner Sombart, translated by Patricia M. Hocking and C.T. Husbands

February 8, 1979 issue