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.

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.

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

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

References

"The Oscars’ International Feature Film Category Needs a Total Overhaul. Here’s a Simple Fix" by Peter Debruge, Variety

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.