Saturday Night Live Host, Chris Pine explains the differences between him and Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth. It’s very funny, charming and well performed. But on a more serious note, cultural dominance looks like this. It looks like this when the paradigm and its institutions and systems embed preferences and privileges for various […]

Elitists believe in the preeminence of the upper class and embrace the importance of identity factors such as family roots, having refined tastes, attending elite universities and having prominent social networks and status. Additional attributes stereotypically associated with elitism include being cosmopolitan, living in the northeast, and being liberal. The elites: it’s a term that’s […]

Conventional wisdom maintains that images hold “power” to sway public opinion, to move us to action and to ultimately “change history.” In early April, gut-wrenching images seem to have once again awakened the world to the human atrocities happening in Syria. Following a chemical bomb attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, graphic photos and […]

Inequality in America is on the rise. Income gains since the 1980s have been concentrated at the top. The top 10 percent today take home 30 percent of all income, and control over three-quarters of all wealth. We have returned to the level of income inequality that marked the Great Depression of the 1920s and […]

International staff members at the UK’s universities are fearing for their futures as the Brexit process starts to gain traction. About one in six academic staff members at universities in the UK comes from abroad. A recent report from MPs has called for those staff members’ right to stay and work to be guaranteed amid […]

The elites: it’s a term that’s been picking up more and more momentum on both the left and right. President Donald Trump ran as a traitor to his class, railing against the financial and political elites he later went on to staff his cabinet with. Nonetheless, the wave Trump rode was clear: nationalist and populist. […]

The process of change in an organization or community can be chaotic. The failure of most conceived and executed change agendas are due to leadership’s failure to support and lead employees through the change process. Leaders often underestimate and are ill-prepared for stiff resistance from employees and stakeholders who believe that the articulated change is […]

During a recent interview, Golden State Warriors Draymond Green discussed why players around the league have long doubted or dismissed the talents of his superstar teammate, Stephen Curry. But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be […]