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More of a Comment Than a QuestionCRT-gate! (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)In which I welcome back Rachel Ernstoff and Manuel Galvan from the University of North Carolina to discuss what everyone else seems to be discussing: Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Republicans' efforts to ban it from schools and workplaces. You can read about Raj Chetty's work on social mobility across racial and gender groups here: https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-united-states, and find evidence linking affirmative action bans to reduced incomes among Latinos here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3484530Follow Rachel on twitter at https://twitter.com/RErnstoff and at https://www.r...
2021-06-301h 41More of a Comment Than a QuestionSelf MedGate-ing (with Rachel Ernstoff & Manuel Galvan)I invite the amazing, intelligent, insightful Rachel Ernstoff back onto the pod to discuss 'Med-Gate,' - the court case concerning whether the University of Virginia violated the first amendment rights of expelled former UVA medical student Kieran Bhattacharya, and some more general discussion about how we should think about freedom of speech. Oh and Manuel Galvan showed up too.
2021-04-181h 54More of a Comment Than a QuestionThe Importance of Being Ernst with Rachel ErnstoffIn our first episode of the new year, we're joined by Rachel Ernstoff, a social psychology graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill studying intergroup relations and political polarization. In this episode, Rachel shares her fascinating background with us, after which we discuss political polarization and the research around it, the recent attack the Capitol, and Trump's Twitter ban. Rachel's posts on The Pipettepen: http://www.thepipettepen.com/author/ernstofflive-unc-edu/Rachel's blog: https://rationalsnowflake.blogspot.com/ABC News, 24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol (available on Hulu): https://abcnews.go.com/US/attack-capitol-broken-24-hours-hulu-special/story?id=75184339
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