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I'm just a reporter.
Kids don't come cheap.
I was just a bright, driven kid.
I grew up in New York City and in London.
Parenting makes us better in so many regards.
In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.
Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.
We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.
If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?
My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.
An IPO-mad technology boom made 'selling out' itself into an honorific.
To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.
Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.
Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.
The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.
Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.
When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.
The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.
Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me.
Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.
There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.
If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.
I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero.
In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.
Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.
Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.
For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest of us, it remains a hindrance.
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'
I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has.
When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.
In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.
Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.
I saw my gender - and myself - as something of a construct. Like anyone who read one too many women studies' books in the 1990s, I aspired to both 'do' and undo my sex.
One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.
The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did.
To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.
At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.
I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.