Christina Gombar

Colin Kidd, along with the liberal American press, scratches his head wondering why working-class people don’t understand they’re working class and just vote Democrat (LRB, 4 November). The answer is that, on some key issues, the Democratic Party is anti-working class. Affirmative action, an immovable plank in the Democratic platform, is perhaps the most racially divisive policy in America today:...

I eagerly read your many contributors’ responses to the recent terrorist attacks, but was struck by the lack of comment from anyone who had worked in the financial industry. Sukhdev Sandhu wrote that the Towers, lit up at night, were a glamorous beacon to visitors and residents alike. He had clearly never worked in them till midnight.Wall Street always felt like a war zone to me. The huge, monolithic...