Conversation #44: Family Values Struggle Session (June 17, 2018)

This week, Chris Travers joins us to dive a little deeper into Melinda Cooper’s book, and America’s history of support for families, including the decades-long, ginned-up controversies around Aid to Families with Dependent Children. This is a challenging book, written in academic jargon, but still chock-full of interesting ideas. And we’ve only gotten through the interview, and the first two chapters of the book! So we may be mining this one for interesting ideas in weeks to come.

How to Listen

You can find the MP3 file here.

The Podcast feed is here.

The Podcast channel on YouTube is here.

Links

From Viewpoint Magazine, Ben Mabie interviews Melinda Cooper, author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.

The MIT Press page for Melinda Cooper’s book can be found here.

This Week’s Music

The music is a vocal-free version of Paul’s cover of “Car Parts,” originally by the Long Winters. You can find the original album track here, and there’s a lovely live version here, and an early live recording of the “post-grunge” version here.