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Allison Tait

@athenais.bsky.social
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Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law, University of Richmond + Author of The House That Family Money Built. Loves cats and pastries. Hates wealth inequality and gender norms. www.allisonannatait.com

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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I write a lot about what it looks like to compare legal frameworks and cultural narratives at either end of the wealth spectrum. Works with witches and witchcraft accusations too.
two witches, rich and poor.
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Meera Deo @meeradeo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hope you’ll join me in Hong Kong next summer for LSA!
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Since I've been reading too much zombie mushroom sci fi space odysseys, it's natural that my review of a book on the law of capitalism leans heavily on the virus metaphor and is not at all strange and weird.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
woman covered in leaves
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
woman covered in leaves
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
theonion.com
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
WASHINGTON—Affirming the importance of traditions like Columbus Day to other Americans, the nation’s 573 federally recognized Indian nations released a joint statement Monday confirming they don’t nee...
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jeff Bezos doesn't like the oppressor/oppressed idea. So we should definitely stop. Waiting for the memo that teaching wealth inequality is banned. (Actually it probably already is somewhere.)
fortune.com
Jeff Bezos says people have been ‘incorrectly’ taught that success is a villain: 'You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand,' he slams | Fortune
With $372 billion to his name, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says Americans have been taught to view billionaire success in the wrong light.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you're gearing up for this year's season of the witch and still want to hear about inheritance: allisontait.substack.com/p/househunti...
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The Rentier Witch
The inherited income it took for Lolly Willowes to meet Satan
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Books finding good homes. Nothing better! Happy that The House That Family Money Built is out in the world and making friends!
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a Tuesday!! So happy the book found a good home (and partner in arrival)! Happy reading
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is putting $35 million into a two-year college alternative in San Francisco, with another $7 million from other backers. Less a college, more a workshop where "bright young minds" can put their talent to use in service of the founders and their profits.
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Inheritance, Inc.: College Edition
How venture capital is building a new system of inherited privilege on campus
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also hitting the shelves this week: @athenais.bsky.social's new book, *The House That Family Money Built: How Inequality Governs Debt and Wealth Management.*
ucpress.edu
The House That Family Money Built by Allison Tait - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
exciting new book by Alison Tait! The House that Family Money Built
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Jesse @jessemerle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This will be good!
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's always a tough sell
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@ucpress.bsky.social @richmondlaw.bsky.social
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today is officially launch day! The House That Family Money Built is out. 📚 🚀 🎉 To those who read drafts, listened to me talk about dynasty trusts for years without visible distress, helped me refine my thoughts with good questions. Thank you, truly. Good reviews from first reader. 👇🏻🐈‍⬛🥳
cat with book
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pre-orders of The House That Family Money Built are out in the wild! I got emails this morning from some friends and colleagues who received their copies today and it's exciting to see the book in the hands of readers. 🥳 Official publication date is Sept. 15th. Plenty of time left to order.
three images of the book cover
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pre-orders of The House That Family Money Built are out in the wild! I got emails this morning from some friends and colleagues who received their copies today and it's exciting to see the book in the hands of readers. 🥳 Official publication date is Sept. 15th. Plenty of time left to order.
three images of the book cover
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New data from the Boston Fed shows how Massachusetts reflects patterns of wealth inequality. White families hold a median net wealth of $549,200. For Black families, it drops to $7,800. For Hispanic families, it's just $1,200. System is working the way it was designed to work.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When retirement savings becomes wealth sheltering?
Tax-preferred retirement accounts are not supposed to be a loophole for the ultrarich to shelter immense fortunes
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who has access to leisure and health? There's a social geography of inequality that underlies summer vacation as well as a question of time. allisontait.substack.com/p/vitamin-se...
Vitamin Sea: the seaside, spa towns, and whose health and leisure matter.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Love it! very exciting to see
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No future is exactly what we should all be reading in the pro-natalist moment. www.thenewsminute.com/opinion/no-p...
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Heirs property and inheritance inequality. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/b...
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Leaving Property to Your Heirs Can Lead to Headache, not Robust Wealth
Real estate passed down without a clear title of ownership can prevent families from creating generational wealth.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What Buffett Says. And What Buffett does. Talked to Fortune about this one.
fortune.com
Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family's foundations. The way he's doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works | Fortune
People assumed Buffett was avoiding taxes or warehousing the money. Experts say the more telling question is how he's giving it away.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One of the original forms of the surveillance state? Credit ratings. This week's post is a book preview and recounts how credit rating have always been not only moral as well as financial accountings but also tools for the surveillance of populations and the security of capital.
open.substack.com
How We Learned to Love Being Watched
Creditworthiness, credit ratings, and how the system trained us to give up our data privacy
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What we're not talking about when it comes to the "great wealth transfer": Almost three quarters of those expected to inherit from Baby Boomers are already in the top 10% by household net worth. www.wealthmanagement.com/high-net-wor...
wealthmanagement.com
Wealth Transfer Will Boost Richest Families Most
Almost three-quarters of those set to inherit from Baby Boomers are already in the top 10% by household net worth
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Family money is building media houses and dynastic wealth is accumulating and consolidating in real time. The Ellisons, The Redstones. The Murdochs. It's old-home day at the billionaire club. www.craincurrency.com/investing/fa...
craincurrency.com
Family money is buying control of the American newsroom — and answering to no one
Recent purchases of media properties are raising questions about editorial independence.
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Friends. I've got a new book website. No cat pics, yet. But check it out anyway. www.allisonannatait.com
allisonannatait.com
Allison Anna Tait I Author
Explore the legal causes of wealth inequality with Allison Anna Tait, Author.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Empire strikes back
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Way to deflect from wealth taxes. Very not transparent.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Imagine debasing yourself Peter Thiel's marketing guy and thinking you have the room to sneer at *anyone* much less a goddamn MacArthur Fellowship winner with a PhD. "Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/05/2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On this day in 1996, the Supreme Court decided Romer v. Evans, striking down an amendment to the Colorado Constitution that prohibited the state from including gay people in anti-discrimination protections. Justice Scalia wrote a furious dissent. #WeTheMen
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The scale is horrifying. (The proposal is to let companies set their own line speed - but the current max is already *1,106* hogs/hour.)
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you're interested in child support, pipelines to incarceration, and high-wealth exceptionalism, I've got a sneak preview from my forthcoming book for you. The book, The House That Family Money Built, publishes on September 15th with @ucpress.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/allisont...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Shocking stuff from the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust on his latest earnings call:
“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ — quote, tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs and even the phrase, ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said. He also criticized Mamdani’s singling out of Griffin, calling it an “ugly, unnecessary video stunt.”
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A nice example of how public hearings can mobilize democratic constituencies (laudatory).
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Second in a series about what the exceptions to coverture teach us. Spoiler alert: obtaining right for married women was tied to expanding support for the capital that drove markets. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
If you're looking for a little coverture history today, your wishes have come true. This week's Substack is about how the law imagined a woman's full legal personhood long before the end of coverture. It simply reserved that personhood for the Queen. allisontait.substack.com/p/to-be-the-...
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To Be the Queen
On queens, coverture, and how law selectively extends personhood
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First there was a glimpse at the cover 🤩 Now the book is actually available to pre-order! 🎉 You can pre-order right now (great way to start the day)!! ⬇️ and very soon through @ucpress.bsky.social. 👍🏻 amzn.to/4tUCSV6
Description of book and cover image
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We’re in a new era of coverture. Coverture 2.0, however, is not just a return to the patriarchal household and a bevy of tradwives. Coverture 2.0 is a framework of legal oppression eroding the legal advances that gave women property rights. Read (and subscribe!) 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/allisont...
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Coverture 2.0
Rebooting a legal regime of enforced dependency
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thank you!
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you!
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
thank you! I'll definitely post updates 🤗
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you!!
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Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
thanks!
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