Eaman Jahani has thought about society and equality for a long time. His interest may have been shaped in part by his childhood in Iran, where he witnessed a constant struggle for social equity and progress. “I was reading political news constantly,” he remembers. But all societies have struggles, and Jahani thinks if he’d grown up elsewhere, he’d be drawn to the same questions. “When I came to the United States, I started reading social theories of the struggle between labor and capital,” he says. “The U.S. also deals with…
