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Bonus episode excerpt: Summer School

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which Current Affairs finance editor Sparky Abraham and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson discuss all things education: student loans, free college, and the lefty case for education (in response to libertarian Bryan Caplan's recent book, The Case Against Education).

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners, it's your host, Pete Davis here to share that over at the bird feed.

0:08.8

We have a new bonus episode on all things, education.

0:13.2

School may be out for summer, but it is in session with current affairs.

0:18.3

Editor-in-chief Nathan Robinson and finance editor, Sparky Abraham,

0:22.9

discuss student loans,

0:24.7

free college, and the lefty response

0:26.9

to Libertarian Brian Kaplan's recent book,

0:30.0

The Case Against Education.

0:32.2

You can listen to this episode

0:33.7

and all other bonus episodes

0:35.7

on the Current Affairs Bird Feed by becoming a patron on our

0:40.4

Patreon page, patreon.com slash current affairs. Our main episodes come out every two weeks on this feed,

0:47.4

but bonus episodes like this one, and a bunch of others on reality TV, Irish poetry, the politics of

0:53.5

contracts, and more come out on the

0:56.4

bird feed.

0:57.4

Hope you can join up and take a listen, but if not, no worries will be back with a main

1:02.1

episode this week in the coming days.

1:05.5

For now, here's Nathan and Sparky with an excerpt from their episode.

1:10.2

And so I really think it really is dangerous once we get into the argument of,

1:15.0

does school help you be better at your job?

1:18.7

Because, I mean, as you said, and like, as we argued the thing,

1:21.8

once you start having that argument, you're sort of admitting that school is there to help you get better at your job.

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