‘Get a Job, Get Married, Have Kids’: A Debate Over Youth Politics

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What’s your earliest political memory? That’s the question Professor Carlos Lozada puts to his co-hosts this week on “Matter of Opinion.” The hosts discuss the coups and presidential pinings of their youths before debating what political events may be shaping the attitudes of younger voters today. Plus, the documentary Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce need to see.

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0:00.0	Is there a lot of footage of him without a shirt on because I'll turn in for that?
0:04.4	There is a fair amount of footage of him.
0:07.0	HR. HR is on the case.
0:08.8	He does not work for the New York Times, Carlos.
0:12.0	From New York Times, Carlos. From New York Times opinion, I'm Carlos Lozada.
0:17.0	I'm Michelle Coddle.
0:18.0	I'm Ross Dauthett, and I'm Lydia Paul Green.
0:21.0	And this is matter of opinion, where thoughts are allowed.
0:25.0	I'm never gonna stop.
0:30.0	I'm never gonna stop.
0:32.0	Don't stop. Just stop it. Can't going to stop. You know. Don't stop.
0:33.0	Just stop it.
0:34.0	Can't stop one stop.
0:35.0	All right, so this week we're going to try something a little bit different. It's inspired in part by an
0:44.6	exercise I used to do when I taught an undergrad class on political journalism. Every
0:51.8	semester for more than 10 years I kicked off the first evening of class by having each
0:56.7	student share the answer to the same question.
1:01.4	What is your earliest political memory and why do you think it stuck with you?
1:06.7	Sometimes the answers were very personal, you know, like I went to a rally with my mom
1:11.4	or you know how I voted in my school's mock election in the third grade
1:15.6	but often they would kind of cluster together so early in my time teaching a lot of
1:22.1	the answers were about, you know, there was something going on with
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