"The argument that class politics is simply another kind of identity politics is, in essence, a continuation of this polemic. More fully articulated, it goes something like this: class is an identity like race or gender, but socialists _...Read More_

[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/angela-lansbury-murder-wrote-beauty-beast-star-dies-96-rcna42421](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/angela-lansbury-murder-wrote-beauty-beast-star-dies-96-rcna42421) >"Biggest tour in orchestra’s history reflects boom in interest in Ukrainian culture since Russian invasion"

"Why are we surprised that class exists within categories like “race” or “ethnicity,” when we know these were constructed precisely to hide class divisions."

>"The actor Jennette McCurdy’s memoir is a confessional feat that asks what, if anything, adult children owe an abusive parent."

>"Anna Netrebko is not backing down in the row over her make-up, causing other acts to pull out of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival"

>"“I don’t have a gun, but I have my cello,” a musician says as he joins the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, which is made up of refugees who fled the war and artists who stayed behind."

>"New edition of Cambridge Latin Course to include more prominent female characters and better reflect empire’s _...Read More_

>"Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City."

A great and thought provoking article on women's fashion choices and agency in the concert hall. "Nineteenth-century ideas about what classical music is, who it is by, for and about have all been upended. So, too, must ideas about how it _...Read More_

"In times of war, issues of ethnic and national identity overshadow all considerations of class. We are thereby forgetting a crucial question: Which class relations should we aspire towards?"

>"A Du Yun premiere, Annie Gosfield’s fabulous new 'Secret Life of Planets' and Louis Andriessen's 'De Staat' punctuate the 12-hour music marathon."

"I wanted to be incomprehensible to my family, and that I became." This, by *johnpmerrick, is excellent.

“I think one of the ways you can measure the productivity of Black Twitter’s conversations is in talking about how class doesn’t really matter when it comes to the criminalization of Black _...Read More_

The whole piece is worth reading, but honestly the first paragraph stands alone as the grand arc of the present material conditions, the haunting firmament against which Schwartz' portraits of the lives of the wealthy land (or fail to do _...Read More_