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Old Town Road and Authentic Country Music

We discuss Old Town Road, a viral hit that rose to the top of the country music chart, and was subsequently delisted.
Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich (2017, Stanford University Press). Twitter: @cristobalyoung5
Sexual Harassment, Identity Movements, and the Opioid Crisis*

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In this completely dispensable, all-banter episode, we discuss the possibility of long-term societal changes stemming from recent sexual harassment allegations (3:00), the dynamics governing the fates of identity-based social movements (15:10), weird GSS questions (32:00), bad research incentives (37:10), Gabriel gives his take on Sam Quinones’ Dreamland (39:20), and fear of black people (1:01:00).