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Children of catastrophe

Christopher Bray

A great failure of contemporary American capitalism is that it is not serving everyone. The educated minority—the one-third of the adult population with a four-year college degree—has prospered, but the majority has lost out, not just relatively but absolutely. The facts are increasingly clear and hard to ignore.

Dar Williams knows Northampton — and she’s coming back to her old stomping grounds Saturday night with Cry Cry Cry Richard Shindell, Dar Williams, and Lucy Kaplansky of Cry Cry Cry Dar Williams, left, Lucy Kaplansky, and Richard Shindell make up the folk trio Cry Cry Cry. Photo by Jo Chattman Published: 3/29/2018 2:34:16 PM Dar Williams knows how to work a Northampton crowd. The last time she performed here, in October 2017, she told her audience about her “perfect Northampton day — I...