MIR Meets: Richard Reeves

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Richard Reeves, the President of the American Institute for Boys and Men. They discuss the underrepresentation of male students on college campuses, the significance of biological differences between boys and…
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MIR Meets: Melissa Kearney

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Melissa Kearney, the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. They discuss her recent book The Two-Parent Privilege, which examines the economic advantages that two-parent households…
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MIR Meets: Will Stancil

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Will Stancil, a research fellow on the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity. They discuss the state of the US economy, concerns surrounding Biden's age, and the incentives of mainstream journalism.
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Dig Deeper: Teacher Supply in the US

Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Jessica Grose, an opinion writer for The New York Times. They discuss the negative effects of pandemic-induced school closures, the increased prominence of grade inflation in schools, and other…
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MIR Meets: Yascha Mounk

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Yascha Mounk, the head of Persuasion and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. They discuss his new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, and the set of ideas, ideologies, and…
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MIR Meets: David French

Host Andrew Xu sits down with David French, a columnist for The New York Times. They discuss the potential dangers of a second Trump presidency, the internal politics of the pro-life movement in America, and how to frame rhetoric to…
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Dig Deeper: Secularization

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Jessica Grose, an opinion writer for The New York Times. They discuss modern society's lower participation rates in religious institutions, how that relates to a group that social scientists refer to as…
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MIR Meets: Darrell Owens

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Substack writer and housing policy analyst Darrell Owens, to discuss the causes of San Francisco's homelessness crisis, the non-partisan nature of NIMBYism, and the debate surrounding affirmative action.
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MIR Meets: Tomiwa Owolade

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Tomiwa Owolade, the author of This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter. They discuss the ways in which discourse surrounding race relations in the US is often inaccurately transposed onto that of…
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MIR Meets: Dylan Matthews

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Dylan Matthews, a senior correspondent for Vox and head writer for Future Perfect. They discuss Biden's resolution to the debt ceiling crisis, the intricacies of the US's tax system, and various aspects of the…
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MIR Meets: David Sax

Host Andrew Xu sits down with David Sax, a Canadian freelance journalist and the author of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World. They discuss what it would take for humanity to opt into a more human future, and how that…
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MIR Meets: Chloe Valdary

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Chloe Valdary, the head of Theory of Enchantment. They discuss the way that her program differs from other comparable initiatives, what it hopes to achieve, and how it uses pop culture to better encapsulate its…
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Review Radio: Immigration to the US

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Dr. Leah Boustan, an economics professor at Princeton University. They discuss the performance of immigrant families relative to their peers in the US, the way geographical factors play an extremely large role…
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MIR Meets: Henry Olsen

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Henry Olsen, a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. They discuss Doug Ford's recent re-election win in Ontario, the center of opinion in the Republican…
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MIR Meets: Moshe Lander

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Moshe Lander, an economics professor at McGill University. They discuss Lander's journey as an economics professor, the misconceptions surrounding our current inflation crisis, and whether or not an economics…
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MIR Meets: Alyssa Rosenberg

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Alyssa Rosenberg, a columnist for The Washington Post. They discuss the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra, the ephemerality of political performance, and Scarlet Witch's arc in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of…
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MIR Meets: Greg Sargent

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Greg Sargent, a columnist for The Washington Post. They discuss the state of the U.S. economy, the New Right, popularism, and the extent to which we can disentangle the cause and effect of either party's…
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Mask Hysteria: The Lab Leak Theory

Host Andrew Xu sits down once again with Umair Irfan, a science reporter who covers the pandemic at Vox. They discuss the origins of the pandemic, the scientific consensus surrounding it, and the way mainstream news outlets have handled the…
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MIR Meets: Matt Continetti

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Matt Continetti, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and contributing editor at National Review. They discuss Barack Obama, populist conservatism and conspiracy theories in order to better…
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MIR Meets: Ramesh Ponnuru

Host Andrew Xu sits down with Ramesh Ponnuru, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor for National Review, to discuss reform conservatism and the state of the U.S. Republican Party several months after the
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