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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