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Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class

Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class

Update: 2025-07-04
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In today’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Joan C. Williams, award-winning scholar of social inequality and author of Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back (St. Martin's Press).

Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion. Host: Richard Aldous Producer (for the last time): Laura Silverman

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Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class

Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class

Richard Aldous