Archive - Notes on Class

Machines Can't Replace You

on finishing a book that could only have been written by real, live humans

Jun 6 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

May 2025

and what that really means in factory work

May 25 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

March 2024

The Right Kind of White

An interview with author Garrett Bucks on race and class in America

Mar 19, 2024 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

December 2023

What became of your local newspaper?

Community power displayed in buildings

Dec 5, 2023 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

November 2023

Economic indicators

and the things we don't count

Nov 22, 2023 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

October 2023

Leaving isn’t the only answer

On toxic politics, fleeing to safety and fighting back

Oct 31, 2023 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

An interview with historian Betsy Gaines Quammen

Oct 24, 2023 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

September 2021

Pushed Out in the American West

Going deeper on rural gentrification with sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram

Sep 7, 2021 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

February 2021

Trying to buy in a Montana boomtown

On being middle-class in a housing market tilted to the wealthiest buyers

Feb 21, 2021 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

March 2020

When Butte wouldn't shut down

The devastation of the 1918 flu and our collective trauma

Mar 26, 2020 •

Kathleen McLaughlin

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