Dylan Matthews, Dara Lind, and Jerusalem Demsas talk about affirmative action. They dig into the current Supreme Court case about Harvard’s admission rates and ask: How do we make sure our elite institutions adequately reflect the population? Plus, a white paper about the effects of education on mortality.
References:
Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser’s explainer about the SCOTUS cases
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, and Tyler Ransom's empirical papers on Harvard admissions
Jay Caspian Kang on the Harvard case
Ending affirmative action in California pushed Black and Latinx students into worse schools and jobs
Randall Kennedy’s case for affirmative action
Sheryll Cashin’s case for “place-based affirmative action”
An argument that class-based affirmative action produces more racial diversity than regular affirmative action
Nicholas Lemann on affirmative action for the New Yorker
How the Texas “10 percent” rule changed high school enrollment
White paper: "The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence Using College Expansions"
“A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost,’” the Wall Street Journal
Opinion | “Affirmative Action Was Never a Perfect Solution,” the New York Times
“Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity”
Hosts:
Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox
Jerusalem Demsas (@jerusalemdemsas), policy reporter, Vox
Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds cohost, Vox
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial adviser
Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
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