How does the Supreme Court consistently rule against the interests of the poor?

Adam Cohen will join us to talk about his new book, Supreme Inequality.

Are we really preparing our kids for life in the modern world?

Madeline Levine will be here to talk about her book, Ready or Not.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the water world are reading.

This is the Booker View Podcast from The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Adam Cohen is here now to talk about his new book, Supreme Inequality.

The Supreme Court's 50 year battle for a more unjust America.

Adam, thanks for being here.

Oh, my pleasure.

That's a very ominous and pointed subtitle.

I want to get into that in a moment, but I want to start first with your

last book before this, Inbecils, because it also looked at some pretty grim history

in American court history and talk a little bit about that book and how you got from

there to here.

The last book, Inbecils, was about an infamous 1927 Supreme Court case, Buck vs. Bell, in

which the court actually upheld eugenic sterilization.

It said that the state of Virginia could sterilize this poor young woman just because they

thought that her genes were bad and that she was feeble-minded.

So it was one of the worst cases in Supreme Court history.

I thought it wasn't appreciated enough, so I was happy to shine a light on that.

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