Reject Modernity Embrace Tradition
by Clayton Becker and Megan Cox
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Episode 53: Reject Mission Creep, Embrace Service First Policies
Episode 53: Reject Mission Creep, Embrace Service First Policies
About this podcast
Two Political Science PhD Students, Comparativist Megan Cox and Americanist Clayton Becker take you through the ways that previous generations have made the world worse by dismantling the legacy of things like the New Deal and the Great Society. From car dependency to political polarization to our over-reliance on dating apps to helicopter parenting, come along to learn about the many different ways that we should Reject Modernity and Embrace Tradition.
Episodes
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- Episode 53: Reject Mission Creep, Embrace Service First Policies · 1 h 0 minA cousin to, or perhaps a descendent of "Everything Bagel" policies, is that many organizations are having their primary missions undermined by what are, at best, ancillary…
- Summer Hiatus Announcement: Reject Unplanned Hiatuses, Embrace the Academic Job Market (with Graham Straus) · 34 minMegan and Clayton are taking a bit of a break while they apply for jobs. But, because they are so nice and don't want to just vanish, they've brought a special guest on to…
- Episode 52: Reject Race Neutral Remedies, Embrace Race Conscious Fixes · 1 h 17 minThe United States as a whole broadly likes to claim that is is focuses on equality and "not seeing race" is often held up as a virtue. However, this notion of colorblindness is…
- Episode 51: Reject Echo Chambers, Embrace Evidence · 1 h 7 minIn an episode that really gets at the ongoing themes of this show, Megan and Clayton talk about how echo chambers, conspiratorial thinking, and shibboleths that require being…
- Episode 50: Reject the Closed League, Embrace the Beautiful Game · 1 h 16 minWith the World Cup only days away, and with our last couple of episodes being, well, heavy as hell, we thought we would take the opportunity to inject a little levity into the…
- Episode 49: Reject Trump's Forever Dodge, Embrace Foreign Policy · 1 h 15 minThe Trump Administration has been maddeningly, insanely inconsistent on the causes, justification, purpose, just about everything to do with their war in Iran. Megan and Clayton…
- Episode 48: Reject Rejecting the Voting Rights Act, Embrace Reconstruction 2.0: The Reckoning · 1 h 13 minThe Supreme Court's decision in the Callais case is, to put it mildly, a bunch of hot garbage. Megan and Clayton struggle to stay calm as they take you through the history of the…
- Episode 47: Reject Medical Misinformation, Embrace Modern Science · 1 h 9 minThere is a rising tide of misinformation specifically related to women's health that parallels the anti-vaccine movement with startling fidelity. Megan and Clayton talk about…
- Episode 46: Reject "The Department of", Embrace Justice · 1 h 12 minPam Bondi is turning the Department of Justice into an instrument of Trump's will rather than a legitimate law enforcement organization. Her actions are doing long term damage to…
- Episode 45: Reject X, Embrace Twitter (with Jake Christie) · 1 h 5 minElon has ruined Twitter. Just about every element of the user experience has gotten worse since he took over, and he fundamentally seems to misunderstand the platform. We talked…
- Episode 44: Reject Random State Violence, Embrace Accountability · 1 h 15 minOver the past year of the Trump administration, ICE agents have been running around the country acting with utter impunity. Without the threat of being help accountable for their…
- Episode 43: Reject Isolation, Embrace Celebration · 51 minJust about every culture in the Northern Hemisphere has a festival of lights around this time of year, from Diwali to Christmas to Hanukkah to the Lantern Festival to Yule . It…
- Episode 42: Reject Tax Cuts, Embrace Civic Commitment · 1 h 11 minThat top tax rates and general tax burdens have decreased has been much reported on, but an equally important, if less well known, trend is that American states and cities…
- Episode 41: Reject the 50-year Mortgage, Embrace Building Housing · 1 h 8 minTrump's recent "proposal", if we can call it that, for a 50-year mortgage, is one of the worst ideas his administration has ever had that wasn't actively intending to hurt…
- Episode 40: Reject the Shadow Docket, Embrace Decisions · 1 h 2 minRecently, the Supreme Court has been making much greater use of the emergency, or "shadow", docket to make rulings which have real substantive impacts - even though the emergency…
- Episode 39: Reject Mere Cancellation, Embrace Cultural Change · 55 minA few episodes ago, Megan and Clayton talked themselves into the position that the MeToo movement hadn't actually been very successful in achieving many of its goals. Listen…
- Episode 38: Reject "Born and Raised", Embrace Transplants · 1 h 8 minEverybody seems to hate it when new people move to the city. Transplants are held responsible for everything from traffic to displacement. But this image of transplants as some…
- Episode 37: Reject Dating Apps, Embrace Meeting Through Friends · 1 h 9 minDating has become an "online first" activity these days, with the plurality of relationships beginning on the internet. This has some pretty substantial negative consequences for…
- Episode 36: Reject Inclusionary Zoning, Embrace Social Housing · 57 minProducing affordable housing is important, but our most commonly used methods for getting this housing built may be actively counterproductive. In what is perhaps the nerdiest…
- Episode 35: Reject Social Media, Embrace Real Life · 1 h 2 minWe live a substantial portion of our public lives on social media in a way that is actually deeply unhealthy for many of us and causes us to make decisions that we would not…
