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32:  A MINOR REVOLUTION with Adam Benforado

32: A MINOR REVOLUTION with Adam Benforado

FromBooked Up with Jen Taub


32: A MINOR REVOLUTION with Adam Benforado

FromBooked Up with Jen Taub

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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Jul 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week Jen’s guest is Adam Benforado, author of the compelling new book A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All. 

The Atlantic said A Minor Revolution is “An extremely sympathetic and worthy attempt to protect kids…. [this is] a book that reads like a manifesto. His ideas are bold, to the point, and ambitious.” Salon praised Adam’s work as “Ambitious . . . His unifying argument is anti-inertial. . . . The book blew my mind.” 

And friend of the podcast, Heather McGhee (author of The Sum of Us), said Adam “weaves compelling real-life stories with legal and economic analysis to deliver a bracing indictment of our society’s self-sabotage. He doesn’t end there, however; his final recommendations for how to change course are both revolutionary and accessible.”

Adam is a professor of law at Drexel University. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, he served as a federal appellate law clerk and an attorney at Jenner & Block. 

He is also the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller Unfair and is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and popular essays. 

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Get More from Adam Benforado
Twitter | Website| Author of A MINOR REVOLUTION

Get More from Jen Taub:
Twitter | Follow the Money Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY 
Released:
Jul 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (59)

Booked Up with Jen Taub features intimate interviews with nonfiction authors. Jen’s guests include writers of current bestsellers and beloved backlist books. Conversations cover love, money, politics, early dreams, writing habits, reading tastes, procrastination techniques, self-doubt, and news of the day. Creator and host, Jen Taub is a law professor, advocate, and author. Her nonfiction books include BIG DIRTY MONEY (Viking 2020) and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES (Yale Press 2014). She focuses on “follow the money” matters— promoting transparency and opposing corruption. Jen’s favorite poem is Prufrock (and yes she knows that Eliot held abhorrent views. She contains multitudes and can separate the dancer from the dance.) Taub was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. A former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments, she is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.