5: The New Culture Wars: Higher Ed Edition
fiction/non/fiction30 Marras 2017

5: The New Culture Wars: Higher Ed Edition

The novelists V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell discuss how cuts to higher education are threatening the fabric of American life. Guests John Freeman and Sarah Smarsh talk about the higher cost of college has exacerbated income inequality. And the director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang, weighs in on how the great Midwestern public universities are being squeezed by Republican-led state legislatures. Readings: "We Just Don't Feel Like We Belong Here Anymore" by Becca Andrews in Mother Jones. "The Decline of the Midwest's Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Its Most Vibrant Economies" by Jon Marcus in The Atlantic. "Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees" by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan in the Washington Post. Tales of Two Americas, essays "Blood Brother" by Sarah Smarsh, "Hurray for Losers" by Dagoberto Gilb and "A Good Neighbor Is Hard To Find" by Whitney Terrell Moo by Jane Smiley Stoner by John Williams All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang Whitney's statistics on the 2008-2016 decline in Missouri's higher education funding come from an August 18, 2016 report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. You can find the figures for your state here: https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-by-state-fact-sheets-higher-education-cuts-jeopardize-students-and-states-economic For more, visit us at LitHub.com

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S9 Ep. 28: Liam Callanan on Trump Vs. the Pope

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S9 Ep. 27: Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

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S9 Ep. 26 Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

S9 Ep. 26 Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

Retired astronaut and novelist Chris Hadfield joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss space exploration, geopolitics, and his new book, Final Orbit. Hadfield recalls watching...

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S9 Ep. 25 Kathryn Paige Harden on Behavior, Genetics, and Blame

S9 Ep. 25 Kathryn Paige Harden on Behavior, Genetics, and Blame

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9 Huhti 45min

S9 Ep. 24 Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

S9 Ep. 24 Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

Writer Ana Gavrilovska joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about her recent article for Current Affairs, "Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming." Gavrilovska reflects o...

2 Huhti 49min

S9 Ep. 23 Ellie Roscher on Fair Game and the Future for Trans Athletes

S9 Ep. 23 Ellie Roscher on Fair Game and the Future for Trans Athletes

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S9 Ep. 22 Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

S9 Ep. 22 Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

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