Can the Country Survive Without a Strong Middle Class?

The U.S. Constitution, it is fair to say, is normally thought of as a political document. It lays out the American system of government and the relationships among the various institutions. But in a powerful new book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution , the Vanderbilt legal scholar Ganesh Sitaraman argues that the Constitution doesn't merely require a particular political system but also a particular economic one, one characterized by a strong middle class and relatively mild inequality. A strong middle class, Sitaraman writes, inspires a sense of shared purpose and shared fate,......(read more)

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