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0:00 Intro
1:03 How Rick feels being a “liberal maverick,” according to the NYT
4:18 Rick’s advocacy for class-based affirmative action
6:39 Rick: “The Trump administration has gone too far” by trying to eliminate racial diversity
13:02 Opening up the elite university’s old boys club
21:21 Will economic diversity in admissions come with test score disparities?
23:55 Ground News ad 25:56 What’s Edward Blum’s deal?
29:36 Rick: The Democratic Party needs to ask itself why it lost to Trump
34:48 The black allies of class-based affirmative action
40:53 Is vocational training a viable alternative to four years of college?
44:48 Addressing the development problem among black students
52:52 Rick’s hopes for a new Democratic Party
Links and Readings
Rick’s new book, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
Pew poll on race and ethnicity in college admissions
Glenn and John’s 2023 conversation with Peter Arcidiacono
The 1966 Coleman report, Equality of Educational Opportunity
Rick’s book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Rick’s Atlantic piece, “Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall”
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