Guest Column by five Penn Law professors | Notions of 'bourgeois' cultural superiority are based on bad history
By
Sophia Z. Lee
, Serena Mayeri
, Dorothy E. Roberts
, Sarah Barringer Gordon
and Tobias Barrington Wolff
·
Aug. 20, 2017
In the recent opinion article “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander lament the loss of the “bourgeois cultural hegemony” of the 1950s.
