A good show, but with a major caveat
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“I appreciate the gap that this show fills after the demise of First Mondays, but it suffers from one of the same problems that show did - a sort of unexamined elitism that permeates the whole show. Every host went to an elite law school, and now either teach at an elite school or practice at an elite firm. It goes largely unacknowledged, yet comes out in all sorts of ways - from the inside baseball talk about how clerks operate inside the Supreme Court (an experience very few people will even be considered for, and no one without the most prestine elite credentials) to a complaint in the most recent episode (at the time I write this) that members of the Supreme Court Bar didn't get the type of priority access to arguments that they're used to during the Title VII cases, rather than an analysis of how having special seats reserved for the Supreme Court Bar in the first place reproduces many of the types of inequality the hosts are (rightfully) upset about in many other contexts.
Luckily it doesn't suffer from other problems First Mondays did, namely the lack of voices of women and people of color. (And I know it's not fair to keep comparing it to FM; I only do so because it was the closest analogue I was aware of before Strict Scrutiny came on the scene.) If I'm going to listen to a lot of elites explain a very narrow segment of the law, this panel makeup is way better than any of the other options we've had to this point. Plus they play Lizzo and RuPaul songs so they clearly have great taste! But I still wish there was more of an understanding of how the hosts' eliteness affects their perspective, and more of an attempt to grapple with that.”Read full review »
Literroy via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/21/19
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“I like the analysis but why do these 40 year old women try to talk and act like millennials? Corny shtick”
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United States of America ·
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