This column was written by Catherine Seipp. That New York Times series on class in America got me thinking about other signs of rank besides the obvious ones, such as income, education, and whether ...

The canvasses in “Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer,” with their umber depths and their silent figures in light, impart a timeless warmth. But as the exhibition ...

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The University of Chicago has spent much of the last century using its surrounding metropolis as a laboratory for the social sciences. Most notably, Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Louis Wirth, along ...