There Is Nothing for You Here, page 52
accent/dialect and, 65, 99–100, 102, 104
education and, 161–64, 306, 320–21
geographic origin and, 17–19, 65, 89–90, 99–101
Hill/examples, 64–65, 99–101, 102
Hill realization of her class, 17–18, 22
Hill unprepared educationally and, 103, 104, 105, 106–9
Labour Party promoting social mobility and, 102–3
Malika’s experience, 104–5
middle class described, 18
place in society, 17–19
prevalence/significance, 18, 308
questions asked to establish/conse-quences, 17–18, 38, 45, 65
upper class described, 18–19
See also gender discrimination
discrimination/class (U.S.)
discrimination against Hill (Harvard), 98, 99–101
upper middle class, 18
See also gender discrimination
divisions (U.S.)
backgrounds of arrested/insurrection and, 292
Biden action to repair, 285–86
COVID-19 pandemic and, 265, 287, 293, 295–97
digital media and, 293–94
extremists and, 293–94
identity loss and, 291, 292
immigrants/immigration and, 265, 291, 292
inequalities, 290–92, 295
polarization/crisis, 13–14, 183, 185
poverty and, 295
presidential election (U.S./2020) and, 288–92
Quinnipiac University poll (2021), 290–91
as security threat, 293–94
unemployment and, 291
views on public servants, 293
See also coup/Trump’s attempt; Trump, Donald
divisions/solutions (U.S.), 302–5
Dixon, Heather, 48
Dream Hoarders (Reeves), 312
Dr. Who (UK TV series), 40
Durham Miners’ Association (DMA), 26, 77–78, 102–3, 111, 122, 324, 327
Durham Miners’ Association (DMA) financial aid
Alfred, Angela, Fiona trip, 77–78
Crabtree’s information, 77
Fiona Hill and, 77–78, 324
E
Ebac Foundation/jobs, 349–50
economics course (Harvard/Hill)
Hill’s background knowledge and, 114–16
need for social protection funds, 115, 118, 325
Professor Kornai, 114–15
reforming socialist economies, 114–16
Eden Theatre, Bishop Auckland, 31–32, 34
Educated (Westover), 354
education (UK)
Cardiff Council, Wales, 162–63
class discrimination and, 161–64, 306, 320–21
County Durham, sponsoring education/extracurricular programs, 17, 52, 323–24
COVID-19 pandemic effects/socioeconomic bias, 297–99, 311, 320
disadvantaged students and, 161–64
disadvantaged students banding together/Team Upside and, 320–21
improvements/Finland model and, 162–63
inequalities/reform and, 44, 45, 47–48
of leaders and, 299
London, 165–66
minorities statistics, 163
opportunity changes (1970s/1980s), 48
Oxbridge, 58, 63, 66–67, 75, 89, 103, 320
Parliament’s Education Select Committee, 163
student debt comparison with U.S., 152
system/sorting by eleven-plus exam, 46–47
“White British” students, 163
See also education; specific schools
education (U.S.)
COVID-19 pandemic effects, 300
inequality/effects, 9, 157
opportunity changes, 46
Science Club for Girls of Greater Boston, 313–14, 325
See also education; specific schools
education
China and, 311
connections and, 312, 313–14, 316–17
creating networks/experiences, 317–21
critical thinking and, 310
“doubly disadvantaged,” 316
elite and, 312–14, 317, 320–21
exchange programs, 323, 327–28
funding and, 311–12
health discrepancy and, 157
Hill’s funding opportunities, 323–24
importance (overview), 309–12, 352–55
K-12 system importance, 311–12, 355
lack of education/consequences, 310
lifelong learning, 321–23, 353–54
minorities/women and, 310, 313–14, 353
need for systematizing opportunity, 325–28
opportunity hoarders, 312–14
poor/disadvantaged students and, 312–16, 352–53
poverty/university life changes and, 69
“privileged poor,” 315
removing obstacles and, 309–10, 311–12
role models and, 354
seizing opportunities, 323–25
student debt and, 148, 152–53, 323
study on upward mobility promotion, 316–17
university programs, 314–15
volunteers/mentors and, 326, 360
See also specific generations; specific individuals/schools
Elizabeth II, Queen
crowning of, 54
daughter’s wedding and, 40
other U.S. presidents/leaders and, 214
Trump and, 212–13, 214, 221
wealth/status, 221
Elliott, John (Ebac Foundation), 349–50
Ellis, Michael, 229
emigration vs. migration, 331
Engels, Friedrich, 277
Entous, Adam, 205–6, 242, 245
equality of opportunity (overview)
common purpose/difficulties, 307–9
democracy and, 305–6
discrimination barriers and, 306–7
identities and, 309
at individual level, 305–6
institutional reform and, 306
undoing political damage, 306–7
working together, 306–7
See also creating opportunities; discrimination and race/racism; discrimination/class; education; gender discrimination; specific areas
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 220, 221, 228
Esper, Mark, 273, 274
Essence of Decision (Allison), 130
Etherley Lane elementary school, 48, 60–61, 321
Eurasia Foundation, 12–13, 141–42, 247, 339, 340–41
Euromissile crisis (1977–1987), 60, 197, 237
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), 339
European Union
UK referendum on membership (1973), 169
See also Brexit
exchanges and creating opportunities, 358, 361
executives/CEOs creating opportunity, 357–58
extractive industries
cycles in, 20, 24–25
global economy shifts/effects, 20–23
oil shocks/effects, 20
See also coal mining
F
Facebook, 182, 275, 276, 294
Farage, Nigel, 170, 171, 172, 174, 179
Fauci, Anthony, 268, 269
federal lands under Trump, 223
Fifth Risk, The (Lewis), 269–70
financial crash (1929), 25
Financial Times, 5
Fine Young Cannibals (band), 308
Finkelstein, Arthur, 248
Fisher, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Lacey, Cousin Elizabeth), 54, 67
Fisher, Peter, 54
Florrie, Aunt, 41
Floyd, George/murder, 265
Flynn, Michael, 193, 194, 203, 212, 250
Foer, Franklin, 220
Ford Motor Company, 342
Ford, Gerald, 204–5
Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), 246
Forgotten Americans, The (Sawhill), 144–45
Foster, Derek, Lord, 59, 63, 65–66
Fox News, 186, 192–93, 207–8, 209, 210, 211, 216, 242, 262, 268, 275
Friedman, Milton, 22
Fruman, Igor. See Parnas/Fruman
Further and Higher Education Act (UK/1992), 151
G
Gaddafi, Muammar, 278
Gaddy, Cliff, 192–93
Gaetz, Matt, 259–60
gender discrimination
appearance/clothes and, 2, 124–25, 260
childbirth/maternity leave and, 147
COVID-19 pandemic and, 295–96, 300–301
c-word, 245, 253
Hill and, 3, 54–55, 78, 124, 125–27, 128–34, 261, 262–63, 353
inequality and, 124–25
looking for role models, 56–57
male harassment (Fiona/Angela), 55–56, 78
poverty/class and, 54, 55, 78
USSR survey/schoolgirls wanting to be prostitutes, 128
working mothers and, 255
See also Russia/gender
gender wage gap
documentation on, 137
effects on children, 144–45
fixed pay and, 137
government positions and, 147
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (U.S./2009), 139–40
maternity leave, 147
negotiations, 137–38, 141, 144
over lifetime, 140
overview, 136–45, 146–47
pay significance, 140
“previous pay” and, 141–43
racial salary gap and, 146
single mothers, 144, 145, 146
women voting for Trump and, 136
gender wage gap/Hill
becoming a citizen and, 140
Brookings Institution, 138, 139, 142–44
Eurasia Foundation, 141–42
Kennedy School, 137, 138, 140–41
maternity leave and, 147
NIO, 143–44
not having information on, 137–38
PhD and, 136, 140–41
“previous pay” and, 141, 142–43
General Motors, 222, 342, 345
General Strike (UK/1926), 39
generations
socioeconomic opportunities and (overview), 148–49
See also specific generations
Generation X
defined, 149
education and, 148–49
January 6, 2021, insurrection and, 292
money and, 149
socioeconomic opportunities and, 148–49
Generation Z
defined, 150
demographic shifts and, 155
education and, 150–52
socioeconomic opportunities and, 150–52, 166, 306
“Ghost Town” (song), 35
Gift, Roland, 308
Gill, Margot, 88–89, 135–36
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 139
Girl Guides (UK), 318–19, 325
Giuliani, Rudy, 239, 272
Goldstein, Amy, 155–56
“Goodbye America” (song), 85
Goodman, Jeff
education/lifelong education, 321–23, 325
Hill family and, 63, 321, 325, 331
moving possibility and, 331
Gorbachev, Mikhail
arms/nuclear weapons, 85–87, 90, 197, 227, 235, 236
coup against, 277
Crabtree and, 61
George H. W. Bush meeting, 227
Reagan-Gorbachev summit (1988), 85–87, 90, 197, 227, 235
as Soviet leader/policies, 95, 98, 120, 172, 224
Yeltsin replacing, 117
Gore, Al, 184
Gould-Davis, Nigel, 88, 101
government shutdown (U.S.), 258
Grandma Vi
background/farming and, 40–41, 73, 76
buses and, 41–42
Fiona’s Oxford interview and, 64, 65
Goodman and, 63
husband/death, 40
money/being economical, 40–42
visiting Hill family, 34
Grant, Ulysses S., 24
Great Depression/effects, 58, 109, 150, 156, 157, 173, 295
Great Recession/effects, 10, 148, 150, 153, 154, 159, 292, 295, 306, 337, 341, 350
Greenberg, Maurice (“Hank”), 131
“Greenham Common woman,” 61
Grenell, Richard
background, 241, 251–52
on NSC/Hill, 252–53
as Trump loyalist, 241
Guardian, 308, 320, 321, 331
Guevara, Che, 277
H
Hartnett, Mary, 55
Harvard
campus vs. other parts of town, 93–94
recruiting low-income/unconventional students, 89
Soros-funded programs, 247
town-gown tensions, 94
Harvard Business Review, 137
Harvard/Hill
application process information, 86–88
arrival, 93
discrimination and, 98, 99–100, 107, 108
economic course, 114–16
History Department PhD, 116, 135, 136
Kennedy Scholarship interview/closet incident, 88, 89, 99
Knox Fellowship/interview, 88–89
master’s program/Russian Research Center, 94
question on UK North-South divide/Hill’s response, 89–90
Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, 116, 118
See also Belfer Center; Kennedy School of Government/Hill; specific individuals
Harvey, Derek, 200, 202, 203, 204
Hawley, Josh, 276, 278
health care (UK)
care description, 334
COVID-19 pandemic and, 335–36
Hill family and, 334, 335
jobs and, 334–35
See also specific components
health care (U.S.)
COVID-19 pandemic and, 335–36
“deaths of despair,” 157–58
inequality and, 157
jobs and, 333, 335
life expectancy, 157
single-payer system and, 336
socialized medicine and, 336
uninsured, 333
Helsinki summit (2018)
arms control and, 227, 228, 232
bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) and, 229–30, 233
date/location, 226–27
discussions, 227, 228–31
DNC missing server/Hillary Clinton’s emails, 232–33
Hill not wanting press conference/considering ending it, 231, 234
interpreters, 231
Mueller’s indictment of Russians and, 229–30
press conference, 231–33, 234
Russian interference in U.S. election and, 231, 232–33, 234
Trump monologue at press conference, 232–33
Trump “winging it”/feelings on, 229–31, 232–33
Henriksen, John, 99, 103–4
heroin epidemic (UK/1980s and 1990s), 43
Higher Education Act (U.S.), 46
Hill, Alfred/Alf
background, 110–11
birth/birthplace, 19, 25
on Bishop Auckland/Roddymoor, 35
childhood/poverty, 25, 38, 47, 355
coal mining/identity, 19, 25, 26, 36–37, 47, 110, 291
coal mining in Pennsylvania and, 111, 113–14, 343
education, 47
health issues/death, 26, 334
helping parents, 27, 28
hospital (BAGH) work, 18, 19, 26, 36–37, 38–39, 78, 80, 112, 188, 334, 335
Keens’ visit/life opportunity comparisons, 110–12
move to Bishop Auckland, 27
