Natalie Kitrow
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first heard Jan 2026
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This is an argument that Eric Levitz of Vox made in his review of your book.
He says increasingly the population of college grads is more female and less white.
And because women and non-white voters tend to be more progressive in their views, that's why we're seeing this leftward shift.
What do you make of that argument?
So given that, is it possible that it's the college education itself that's helping drive students to the left?
We know that colleges as institutions have been moving to the left in recent years.
It seems plausible that has an effect on how students' political identities are shaped.
OK, got it.
There's another thing that I've been thinking about, Noam, which is couldn't college graduates be moving to the left on economic issues, not actually purely because of their economic circumstances, but rather because they're identifying with the left on a range of issues that really matter to them.
Things like abortion or race politics.
And then once they're in that tribe, they're also adopting the economic platform.
Thank you.
It's also just worth acknowledging that even if a college grad may feel more like the working class, economically speaking, they aren't, ironically, voting more like working class people who didn't go to college in America because those people have actually moved to the right.
Most of them voted for Trump in the past three presidential elections.
Of course, in those elections, Democrats didn't put forward an economic populace to contend with Trump.
But when faced with the options they had, the working class chose the Republican in the race.
Just to raise something that we haven't discussed yet, I want to ask about AI, which is an economic force that we haven't yet seen fully play out, but which I could imagine would also have an impact and perhaps is already having an impact on college educated people, especially recent grads and their political identity.
The AI revolution may ultimately hurt college grads more than the working class.
So how do you think about this massive technological shift and its potential effect on the political realignment that you've studied?
And what are the political consequences of that?
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