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William Buckley, Godfather of the Conservative Movement famously said he'd rather be governed

by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2,000 members of the faculty of Harvard.

Buckley was a Yale man, but the idea of college campuses as incubators of liberal snubbery stuck.

The role a university education plays and should play in America's meritocratic

tradition has been up for debate ever since. seventy eight days to go

this is checks podcast about the 2020 elections.

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in death.

Today, as University become a block on social mobility.

Amid the pandemic, some students are filing lawsuits demanding a refund on their tuition fees,

classes via Zoom don't match the level of education they were promised.

The high cost of college education continues to provoke concerns that it might not be worth it.

Recent scandals have made elite college admission systems look unfair.

The perception that university is no longer a driver of social mobility, but the precise opposite fuels the political divide.

In this episode, we'll hear about a potentially revolutionary scheme that helps poor students complete college,

unpick the complicated history of American meritocracy,

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