Members of the UC Berkeley community are invited to join a Matrix Pop-Up Writing Workshop to discuss a new paper by Emily Mackil, Associate Professor in the Department of History, entitled “Property Confiscation in the Ancient Greek World: Uncertainty, Probability, and Quantification in Historical Analysis.”

Please join us for a discussion of the Professor Wendy Brown’s book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West, which casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations, but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. Presented as part of Social Science Matrix “Authors  Meet Critics” Series, the talk will feature Professor Brown along with two colleagues: Gillian Hart, Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley; and Tianna Paschel, Professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley. 

Once home to the most progressive tax system in the world, the United States now has a highly regressive tax system in which the richest Americans pay the lowest tax rate. What might increased taxes on the richest Americans look like?