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Adam Cohen talks about “Supreme Inequality,” and Madeline Levine discusses “Ready or Not.”

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“Supreme Inequality,” the new book by Adam Cohen, argues that over the past 50 years, the United States Supreme Court has exacerbated economic inequality through aggressive jurisprudence.

“It’s not just an arbitrary half century,” Cohen says on this week’s podcast. “Something very specific happened 50 years ago. Nixon was elected in 1968, and he had a vision, which was to end the liberal Warren court and replace it with a conservative court. It’s amazing how quickly he was able to do that.” Nixon “completely shifted” the court, Cohen says, and it’s a shift that “we live with today.”

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Madeline Levine visits the podcast this week to talk about her new book, “Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World,” about the epidemic of anxiety among contemporary parents and its effects on children. “Every time we accommodate to a normal developmental challenge,” Levine says, “we rip away the possibility that that kid can master it on their own.”

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