The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation ...

LGBTQ+ Americans are redefining authenticity and community in 2025, reshaping expectations for culture, identity, and brand ...

Given Keynes’s arrogance and his contempt for savers and the British bourgeoisie in general, it is not surprising that he would advocate an economic system built upon fraud. Furthermore, given that ...

A still image from the first broadcast of VOA TV Chinese in Sep. 1994. Credit: VOA Chinese If the U.S. government reduces or even shuts down Voice of America (VOA), China’s authoritarian regime ...

While longer-term market growth should be solid thanks to anticipated increases in wealth, luxury brands will need to work harder than ever to flourish over the next 12-18 months. This will mean a ...

Contrary to expectations of the middle class, including the petty bourgeoisie, disappearing alongside the rise of monopoly capitalism (considered by Karl Marx as a “transitional” group between the two ...

It is these bourgeois or middle-class virtues that Margaret Thatcher seems set upon restoring; or rather bourgeois ‘values’, since ‘virtues’ is too moralistic, indeed too Victorian a word for our ...

What I mean is that while it makes sense to argue that getting married might make you happy, choosing personal satisfaction as the selling point and ultimate good for the target audience—in this ...

This group embraces classic American middle-class, or what scholars call “bourgeois,” values — like education, hard work, financial success and personal responsibility — as well as “traditional” ...

It is long past time to shed ourselves of the addictive religion of melting, late bourgeois democracy, whose farewell tour is coming soon to a telescreen near you.

But in progressive parlance, those terms rarely mean more than redistributionism. The defining values of Siegel’s bourgeois urbanism were government that works, public safety, and responsibility. Like ...