Transcript: Shep Melnick on Title IX and the Civil Rights State

First podcast in the Syllabus series

We are going back and posting transcripts from the podcast launched in April, sending off transcripts in the days to come, for paid subscribers, some of whom don’t especially care for mellifluous voices reciting well-tempered prose, but some of whom will enjoy reading what they will not listen to, despite the inevitable loss of dimension that comes with reading what was designed to be heard. We will continue this for all subsequent podcasts.

What follows below is a transcript of the inaugural episode of the Syllabus series, wherein I do a deep dive into a subject with a distinguished academic who provides me with a syllabus and does an independent study with me that will be posted at Year Zero for paid subscribers.

Each episode begins with a short lecture on the assigned reading, followed by a discussion in which I act as surrogate for the audience.

Here I am talking to Boston College law professor Shep Melnick about his book, The Transformation of Title IX, which is a kind of Rosetta Stone of the legal and administrative regime that serves as the font from which Successor Ideology flows. It is one of the most important single works for those seeking an understanding of the intellectual history of the Road to Year Zero.

The original episode was released on April 5, 2022 and you can listen to it here on Substack or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple Podcasts  |  Spotify  |  RSS