How Is Nobody Upper Class?

by Patrick Appel

A reader takes the thread in another direction:

I'm finding this an interesting conversation that we really need tohave as a country. I've thought so ever since I first learned the rootsof class theory and what the origins of the term "Middle Class" are.Living as we do in a country that did away with aristocracy (in thepure sense) at its founding, I've often felt that we miss the point inmost international socio-political conversations about class. Ratherthan defining class by...