How college broke the American dream (with Will Bunch)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we’re continuing our exploration into the ways that higher education contributes to America’s political, cultural, and economic divisions. Goldy chats with author Will Bunch about how our leaders almost established a university education as a public good, why the so-called “knowledge economy” has caused inequality to grow, and how we can possibly fix our educational divide. Will Bunch is a national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of several books. He has won numerous journalism awards and shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting with the New York Newsday staff. Twitter: @Will_Bunch After the Ivory Tower Falls https://www.harpercollins.com/products/after-the-ivory-tower-falls-will-bunch Better Public Schools Won’t Fix America https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611 Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	One of the reasons we call this podcast pitchfork economics is that Nick and I see pitchforks
0:14.8	coming if we don't fix the radical inequality that is tearing our country apart.
0:21.3	And one of the things that is creating this radical inequality is the educational inequality
0:28.1	that is a big part of our economic picture.
0:31.3	On this topic, I recently read after the ivory tower falls by Pulitzer Prize-winning
0:38.1	journalist Will Bunch.
0:40.2	It's about the epic untold story of college in America, the great political and cultural
0:46.0	fault line of American life.
0:48.3	As I've said before, one of the best things about doing this podcast is we get to speak
0:52.6	to the authors of the books we read.
0:55.7	So let's talk to Will.
1:04.4	So I'm Will Bunch.
1:05.4	I'm the national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where I've worked for a long
1:11.6	time at the inquiry in the Daily News.
1:14.5	In late 2022, I published my latest book.
1:18.2	It's called After the ivory tower falls, how college broke the American dream and blew
1:24.2	up our politics and how to fix it.
1:27.4	So I guess the place to start, Will, is why?
1:32.1	Why did you want to cover higher education?
1:36.0	Yeah, it was a little bit of a change for me because my main focus, I've been a journalist
1:41.9	for over 40 years, and my main focus has been hardcore politics going back to the first
1:51.0	presidential election I covered, which was 1984 when Wild Raging ran for re-election.
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