"Why Rich People Cheat, and Why We Let Them": In-Person Badger Talk in Middleton, WI
Schedule
Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
7425 Hubbard Ave, Middleton, WI 53562-3117, United States | Middleton, WI
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This is a free, in-person talk hosted on September 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM by Middleton Public Library in Middleton, WI. This event will not be available virtually. Registration is appreciated, but not required. To register, use this link: midlibrary.org/events.Who gets to break the rules, and who has to follow them? In this talk, Dr. Jessica Calarco will reveal why people from more privileged backgrounds are more likely to try to get around the rules and why institutions–including education, healthcare, legal, financial, and policy systems–tend to look the other way, even when privileged rule-breaking exacerbates inequalities in society as a whole.
Jessica (Jess) Calarco is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Calarco has published three books: Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum, and Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (with Mario Luis Small). Calarco’s fourth book, She’ll Fix It, will be published in 2024 by Penguin Random House and reveals how US families, schools, employers, and policymakers get away with treating women as their social safety net, and forcing women to bear the risk of precarity, rather than demanding or building the kind of sturdy social scaffolding that would better support us all. Calarco has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, CNN, Insider Higher Ed, and Business Insider. Calarco has also been featured on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and other radio and television news outlets, and has contributed quotes to dozens of news stories in a wide range of national and international news outlets from the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine to Scientific American and the Chronicle of Higher Education, to Glamour and Good Housekeeping and Ms. Magazine. Calarco has also offered expert testimony as part of a Congressional briefings on families’ decisions regarding Covid-19 vaccines, and she has worked closely with local policymakers on initiatives related to digital equity and to supporting families and children in times of need.
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