Episodes
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
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Review Radio: The Politics of the International Film Oscar
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
References
"The Oscars’ International Feature Film Category Needs a Total Overhaul. Here’s a Simple Fix" by Peter Debruge, Variety
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
MIR Meets: Matthew Rosenberg
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
MIR Meets: Will Stancil
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Will Stancil, a research fellow on the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. They discuss the state of the US economy, concerns surrounding Biden's age, and the incentives of mainstream journalism.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
MIR Meets: Nadim Houry
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Review Radio: McGill Students on Strike
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Spotlight: Grève des United Automobile Workers
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Le 15 septembre, les dirigeants du United Automobile Workers (UAW) ont annoncé le début d’une grève syndicale. Le 20 octobre, 34,000 membres du syndicat étaient en grève et environ 5,000 employés avaient été mis à pied par le big three automobile américain. Vincent Guillotte revient sur cette grève syndicale avec Joseph Abounohra, éditeur principal.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Dig Deeper: Teacher Supply in the US
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Jessica Grose, an opinion writer for The New York Times. They discuss the negative effects of pandemic-induced school closures, the increased prominence of grade inflation in schools, and other contributors to teacher demoralization in the United States.
References
"The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession" from The Annenberg Institute
"Has School Become Optional?" by Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker
"People Don’t Want to Be Teachers Anymore. Can You Blame Them?" by Jessica Grose, The New York Times
"The pandemic's lesson on teacher licensure" by Matt Yglesias, Slow Boring
"Don’t Ditch Standardized Tests. Fix Them." by Jessica Grose, The New York Times
"Congress Isn’t a Schoolyard. Time to Deal With Toxic Immaturity." by Jessica Grose, The New York Times
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
MIR Meets: Yascha Mounk
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down with Yascha Mounk, the head of Persuasion and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. They discuss his new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, and the set of ideas, ideologies, and cultural attitudes which he dubs "the identity synthesis" in his book.
References
"The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time" by Yascha Mounk
"Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap - Why New Group Identity & Social Justice Ideas Failed to Transform America" from The Realignment
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Review Radio: US-China Student Exchanges
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Vivian Wang, a China correspondent for The New York Times. They discuss the decline in student exchange programs between China and the US, the way that Chinese citizens feel about potentially living in the US, and the extent to which this issue serves as a useful barometer for understanding US-China relations.
References
"Can U.S.-China Student Exchanges Survive Geopolitics?" by Vivian Wang, The New York Times
Intro/Outro music: Synapse by Shane Ivers