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Higher education
fromDefector
2 days ago

The Class Warfare Behind The Varsity Blues Saga | Defector

Wealthy parents paid Rick Singer to fabricate athletic credentials for underperforming children to secure college admissions, revealing class-based advantages and brazen fraud.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
3 days ago

"What Is a Golf Course but the Gentrification of Land?": Rafael Manuel on Filipinana

Filipiñana portrays class, memory, and quiet violence through a golf-course microcosm, following a tee girl's navigation of rigid hierarchies.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

No, private schools aren't victims of reverse discrimination' and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

Targeting students from elite private schools signals class bias and risks mistaking privilege-driven performance for genuine talent.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Poem of the week: Rich or Poor, or Saint and Sinner by Thomas Love Peacock

Society condemns the poor for visible minor acts while the rich conceal comparable or greater vices behind wealth and privilege.
Social justice
fromMail Online
4 months ago

Women earn 25% LESS than men in wealthy households, study finds

Women in wealthy UK households earn about 25% less per hour than men, driven partly by unpaid caring responsibilities and reduced hours that lower earnings.
Film
fromInverse
4 months ago

'No Other Choice' Is Nothing Short Of Spectacular

A laid-off middle manager resorts to desperate, often comedic measures to maintain his affluent family life in a pitch-black social satire.
Books
fromJezebel
5 months ago

'Women, Seated' Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and 'Having It All' Are Not Just American Problems

A nanny's emotional bond with her charge traps her in a dependent role despite longing for independence and the instability caused by political arrests.
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