Joan C. Williams is an American feminist legal scholar, the founding director at the Center for WorkLife Law, and a distinguished professor of law at UC Law San Francisco. She is the author of several books, including White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.

11.20.2024

• Thomas Frank
• Joan C. Williams

On Democrats and Class, the Writing Was on the Wall

Two writers, Thomas Frank and Joan Williams, provided sharp insight into the Democrats’ hemorrhaging of working-class voters eight years ago. The Democratic Party ignored their perspectives. We asked them to explain how we ended up here — again.