Episodes
Wednesday May 01, 2024
MIR Meets: Richard Reeves
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Richard Reeves, the President of the American Institute for Boys and Men. They discuss the underrepresentation of male students on college campuses, the significance of biological differences between boys and girls, and changes in the perception of feminism over time.
References
"Stop Pretending You're Not Rich" by Richard Reeves, The New York Times
"Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" by Richard Reeves
"How to Solve the Education Crisis for Boys and Men | Richard Reeves" from TED
"The Men — and Boys — Are Not Alright" from The Ezra Klein Show
"There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys" by Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine
"Less than a third of American women identify as feminists" by Catherine Morris, Ipsos
Friday Apr 26, 2024
MIR Meets: Ben Burgis
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Host Theo Shouse sits down with Substack writer and Jacobin columnist Ben Burgis to discuss the morality of war and democratic socialism.
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Dig Deeper: Gender, Masculinity, and Human Nature
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with David French, a columnist for The New York Times. They discuss gender polarization, the ways that men are falling behind in society, and roles that religious institutions have traditionally played in cultivating cultural norms.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
MIR Meets: Kyle Matthews
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Host Alex Ritch sits down with Kyle Matthews, the Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. They discuss digital concerns surrounding online extremism and speculate on the future trajectory of the issue.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Dig Deeper: Gender Divisions Within Gen Z
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Host Ines Fahmi sits down with Rose Horowitch, an assistant editor for the Atlantic. They discuss the phenomenon of Gen Z men and women drifting apart politically, and some of the potential causes and correlations for this sentiment.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Review Radio: How Our Attention Spans Work
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Host Ines Fahmi sits down with Dr. Gloria Mark, the Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. They discuss her research on the decline of our attention spans, and the impact that new technologies have had on our productivity.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Femininity Through the Ages: Anti-Aging Tweens and Coquette Women?
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
This episode explores a few current trends around femininity on social media and beyond. Senior Editor Clare and Staff Writer Charlotte join hosts Alison and Teodor in discussing Sephora tweens and coquette “tradwives” and what kinds of femininity are valued and what this may say about the state of patriarchy today.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
MIR Meets: Claudia Sahm
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Host Theo Shouse sits down with Substack writer, former Federal Reserve economist, and Bloomberg opinion columnist Claudia Sahm, to discuss inflation, consumer sentiment, Biden's stimulus package, and the Federal Reserve.
References
"Decomposing Supply and Demand Driven Inflation" by Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
"Is the Landing Soft? Will It Stay That Way?" by Paul Krugman, The New York Times
"The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response" by James K. Galbraith, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Review Radio: IFAD's East and Southern Africa Division
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
MIR Meets: Melissa Kearney
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Melissa Kearney, the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. They discuss her recent book The Two-Parent Privilege, which examines the economic advantages that two-parent households have over one-parent households.
References
"The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind" by Melissa Kearney
"‘The Two-Parent Privilege’ gets caught in the trap of convention" by Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post
"What Relationships Would You Want if You Believed They Were Possible?" from The Ezra Klein Show