Frames of Space

Lily Geismer is an associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College, and the author of Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. In this episode, I got a chance to talk with her about the motives of the Democratic Leadership Council during the Bill Clinton administration, and her thesis that 80s and 90s-era Democrats rejected the interests of the working class.   Show Notes "Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party" by Lily Geismer "Twisting Bill Clinton’s economic record to blame him for inequality" by David Greenberg, The Washington Post

Daniel Cox is the director of the Survey Center on American Life and a research fellow in polling and public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also writes the Substack "American Storylines," where he chronicles many of the divisions between men and women in present-day society. In this episode, I got a chance to talk with him about the methodology and reliability of his polling, how gender gaps differ between married and divorced couples, and how women's views on discrimination have changed over the past few decades.   Show Notes "Why Women Have Become Much More Liberal Than Men - Daniel Cox" from Modern Wisdom "A new global gender divide is emerging" by John Burn-Murdoch, The Financial Times "Divorced Men for Trump" by Daniel Cox, American Storylines "Young Women Are Leaving Church in Unprecedented Numbers" by Daniel Cox, American Storylines

Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg are the authors of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice. In this episode, I got a chance to talk to them about the modern Millenial malaise around parenting, the dearth of depictions of motherhood in popular culture, and more.   Show Notes "What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice" by Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg "What's Stopping Liberals From Having Kids?" by Rachel Wiseman and Anastasia Berg, The New York Times

I talked to Ryan Burge, the writer of the Substack "Graphs About Religion," about the decline of Christianity in the US. References "Ryan Burge: Losing Our Religion" from Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning "The Coming Extinction of the White Christian Democrat" by Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion