Explain It to Me

Affirmative action could be doomed (again). What comes next?

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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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