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FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhat if—and hear me out—we are not actually the change we seek? But instead, as Musa al-Gharbi writes, “we are some of the main beneficiaries of the inequalities we condemn.” Who is we? Al-Gharbi, a sociologist at Stony Brook University, grew up in a working-class family but then became part of a group he refers to as “symbolic capitalists.” These are white-collar workers, but more specifically they are academics or nonprofit employees or government functionaries—people engaged in what he describes as: “nonmanual work associated with the production and manipulation of data, rhetoric, social perceptions and relations, organizational structures and operations, art and entertainment, traditions and innovations, and so forth.”
Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She focuses on a range of topics including family and relationships, education, and social issues, often exploring the intersections of culture, politics, and economics. Her insights have been featured in prominent publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the New York Post.
