Social critic: Mamdani Can’t Define Working Class Mayor Mamdani, tribune of the “working class,” couldn’t “define” it with any specificity, marvels Rob Henderson at the Free Press. The mayor suggested “having to work to pay your bills” was a good start, but then wouldn’t agree that anyone making “about a million dollars a year” is not “working class.” This “embarrassment” reflects the self-regard of his political “base,” which wants to identify as working class despite its “social class,” because it’s “easier to discuss income than educational pedigree, accent, hairstyle, clothing, taste, or zip code.” What “makes someone working class is not...