I have admired this symposium series as it has gone along, but yes, this dimension seems to be missing. Mind you, it's also refreshing to hear about workers without talking about gender. They have addressed health care, but lack of parental leave is also an issue in your country, and a major factor in keeping women out of the work force.

I see Thomas Frank ("Listen, Liberal") was invited. I'm always suspicious when people divide the world into the elites and the working people. I probably count as both . . . have a graduate degree and those yucksome "elite" ideas but have also  seen my income stagnate since the 1990s and it has affected our lives deeply. I am considerably more attuned to income inequality than I used to be.