HeyJaredReject Modernity Embrace Tradition
Two UCLA Political Science PhD Students, Comparativist Megan Cox and Americanist Clayton Becker take you through the ways that previous generations have made the world worse by dismantling the legacy of things like the New Deal and the Great Society.
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Summer Hiatus Announcement: Reject Unplanned Hiatuses, Embrace the Academic Job Market (with Graham Straus) (opens the original)
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Megan and Clayton are taking a bit of a break while they apply for jobs. But, because they are so nice and don't want to just vanish, they've brought a special guest on to explain the academic job market, why being on market necessitates a break in the first place, and how getting a job as a professor actually works.
Episode 52: Reject Race Neutral Remedies, Embrace Race Conscious Fixes (opens the original)
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The United States as a whole broadly likes to claim that is is focuses on equality and "not seeing race" is often held up as a virtue. However, this notion of colorblindness is actually making it harder to solve some of the most pressing challenges the nation faces which were born out of historical and maintained by contemporary racism and discrimination. Listen along as Megan and Clayton take you through why this is a problem, and what we can do about it.
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