Institutionalized

This week we are joined by Geoff Shullenburger to discuss the persistence of covid regulations and the sociology behind them.Recommendations:The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael LewisThe Americans Television SeriesOutsider Theory PodcastHistoriansplaining Podcast

This week we are joined by Shep Melnick to discuss Title IX’s origin and how it’s interpretation has transformed over time.Recommendations:Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. ScottCounting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters by Deborah StoneOn Thinking Institutionally (On Politics) by Hugh HecloSexual Assault on Campus: Defending Due Process by Tamara Rice LaveTerri Schiavo case

This week we are joined by Leor Sapir to discuss how civil rights regulations affect how schools and other institutions are required to treat gender and sex.Recommendations: F*ck, That’s DeliciousObi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education

This week we are joined by Ruy Teixeira to discuss the Democrats' structural inability to abandon wokeness.Recommendations:The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise PerryBeyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. MoynihanThe Democrats’ Woes With Hispanic Voters by Ruy TeixeiraPolitical Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020

This week we are joined by Tyler Cowen to discuss the trials and tribulations of the search for talentRecommendations:Byron York’s What Bennie Thompson did on Jan. 6 2005Tyler Cowen’s An Economist Gets LunchBorgen Series

This week we are joined by Mary Harrington to discuss the differences between British and American political cultures.Recommendations: Silence of the Animals by John GrayLiberated Enough: Feminism, Liberalism, and Conservatism by Mary HarringtonFeminism Against Progress by Mary HarringtonFall Out: A year of Political Mayhem by Tim Shipman

This week we are joined by Razib Kahn to discuss the pros and cons of genome sequencing, and how it will reshape the way we live.Recommendations:PandoroNeal Stephenson’s AnathemDavid Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got HereRazib Kahn’s Substack

This week we are joined by David Bernstein to discuss the US’s racial classification system and where it goes wrong.Recommendations:David Bernstein’s Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in AmericaDavid Bernstein’s The Modern American Law of RaceHugh Davis Graham’s Collision CourseJohn Skretny’s The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America

This week we talk to Michael Briggs about the UK prison system and how it was overtaken by gender ideology.Recommendation:Ricky Gervais's newest specialTransgender Confusions by Leo SapirProfessing Feminism by Daphne Patai & Noretta KoertgeMichael's work:Queer Theory and the Transition from Sex to Gender in English PrisonsHow Feminism Paved the Way for TransgenderismMichael's website (edited)

This week we are joined by Nils Gilman to discuss elite accountability and state capacity.Recommendations:Francis Fukuyama's Liberalism and Its DiscontentsRobert Caro's Power Breaker: Robert Moses & The Fall of New YorkThe Technological Fix & Wicked Problems