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Articles by Cody R. Melcher
The South Is Unorganized, Not Backward
It is commonplace to regard the US South as a political backwater. Many liberals see Southerners as irredeemable red-state voters, mired in racist parochialism or bible-thumping backwardness. It is of course true that many states in the South are today, and have been for the last century, bastions of low wages and business-friendly economics, while its political class has championed reactionary and racist social policies.
A Catholic University With a Radical History Faces a Union Drive of Its Own
The American Catholic Church was once an incubator of working-class activism. As Catholic institutions face unionization drives of their own, will they forsake this legacy or embrace it? Food service workers at Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit university, have recently gone public with their intent to unionize. While the workers are technically employed by a third-party contractor, the university can greatly influence the result of the drive.
A Catholic University With a Radical History Faces a Union Drive of Its Own
Father Twomey was one of many “labor priests” that the American Catholic Church produced during the early to mid-twentieth century. Twomey is unique, however, in that he began his activist career at precisely the same time that the labor priests’ activism, in general, began to wane.
What Do Socialists Actually Believe?
Over the past few years, there has been a deluge of popular accounts announcing that many Americans, especially young Americans, are not only fed up with capitalism but also broadly supportive of the once feared S-word: socialism. According to a 2021 Fortune/SurveyMonkey poll, 42 percent of Americans have a positive perception of socialism, jumping to 55 percent among Americans aged eighteen to thirty-four.
What Do Socialists Actually Believe?
Over the past few years, there has been a deluge of popular accounts announcing that many Americans, especially young Americans, are not only fed up with capitalism but also broadly supportive of the once feared S-word: socialism. According to a 2021 Fortune/SurveyMonkey poll, 42 percent of Americans have a positive perception of socialism, jumping to 55 percent among Americans aged eighteen to thirty-four.
Economic Self-Interest and Americans’ Redistributive, Class, and Racial Attitudes: The Case of Economic Insecurity
Abstract An influential body of research on American public opinion since the mid-1980s has found economic self-interest to be, at best, inconsistently and weakly related to social and political attitude formation. This article argues that this conclusion is related to a dearth of analysis of the potential effect of economic insecurity on American public opinion.
American Exceptionalism or the Trump Aberration? Race and Class in American Politics
As the liberal anti-establishment iconoclast Gore Vidal once quipped, “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings.” W. E. B.
The political economy of “White Identity Politics”: economic self-interest and perceptions of immigration
This article challenges the prevailing contention that economic self-interest does not affect public attitudes toward immigration. Through an in-depth re-analysis of the data and findings of Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics (2019), it is argued, first, that a number of variables that are characterized as status-based or sociotropic can plausibly be interpreted as measuring economic self-interest.
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