Tag Archives: Income inequality

Dante on Income Inequality

By Robin Bates | Published: January 13, 2020

Dante puts those who exacerbate income inequality in his fourth circle of hell.

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Buchanan Would Be a Trump Enthusiast

By Robin Bates | Published: August 7, 2018

“Great Gatsby” describes life under Trump to a tee, with Tom Buchanan an archetype of the wealthy Trump supporter.

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Can Lit Make the Rich More Empathetic?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2015

With growing income disparity comes a decline in empathy. Literature can help rebuild our compassion.

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A New Gilded Age? We Need Frank Norris

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2011

Frank Norris’s naturalist 1901 novel “The Octopus: A Story of California” provides us a powerful lens through which to view the growing income discrepancy and the rollback of workers’ rights and benefits that we are seeing in the United States today.

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