No matter what job he has held over his lifetime as a civil servant, Robert Reich has always been an educator. In the upcoming documentary The Last Class, from director Elliot Kirschner, audiences are able to follow Reich through the final semester of his popular “Wealth and Poverty” class, which he taught at UC Berkeley from 2006 to 2023. One of the things that The Last Class does effectively is to draw a straight line between the bullying that Reich endured growing up as a young man and the work he did as an adult. Reich was born with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, which caused him to be much shorter than his peers. As he went through law school and began his service in the government, he began to notice the ways that the system bullied those with less access to money or power, and started to focus on ways that he could help. As a professor, he used his platform to teach others to be observant of those same disparities.-Loud & Clear