Reject Modernity Embrace Tradition

By: Clayton Becker and Megan Cox
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  • Two UCLA 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.
    Clayton Becker and Megan Cox
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Episodes
  • Episode 11: Reject Shareholder Supremacy, Embrace Public Benefit Corporations

    Episode 11: Reject Shareholder Supremacy, Embrace Public Benefit Corporations
    Dec 30 2024

    Much of the "enshittification" of modern life can be traced to the theory of shareholder supremacy (also called shareholder primacy), which has contributed to a monomaniacal drive towards short-term profits over anything and everything else. Listen as Megan and Clayton take you through the drawbacks of shareholder primacy, and what we might be able to do about it.
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    52 mins
  • Episode 10: Reject Charter Schools, Embrace Public Education (with Alexander Elg)

    Episode 10: Reject Charter Schools, Embrace Public Education (with Alexander Elg)
    Dec 23 2024

    The last 30 years have seen an explosion of privately run, publicly funded charter schools. Proponents of charters argue that they are a better route than traditional public education, but in reality they only serve to further weaken education and enrich their for-profit operators. Listen along as special guest Alexander Elg joins Megan and Clayton to unpack the route we ought to take instead.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 9: Reject Educational Elitism, Embrace The State School

    Episode 9: Reject Educational Elitism, Embrace The State School
    Dec 16 2024

    Americans increasingly focus their educational attention on a small cadre of elite institutions, to the detriment of university education as a whole, and with negative consequences for students. Listen along as Megan and Clayton discuss why this focus is so damaging, and what we can do about it.

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    1 hr and 3 mins

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