How George Floyd Changed American Education | Interview: George Packer

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

George Packer joins Jamie to discuss how a new round of progressive culture in universities stems from the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests. The Agenda: —The competitive atmosphere of getting into elite pre-schools —Rejection of nuance and debate —How to teach history and civics —New progressivism and its roots —Progressive ideologies leading to cancel culture —Culture wars and anti-Zionism Show Notes: —Packer: When the Culture War Comes for the Kids —Packer: “The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. Before I get to my
0:05.1	guest today I just want to make a mention that I read all the comments that I have
0:09.6	on the podcast, whether they come from Twitter or in the forum and there were many after
0:15.2	last week's episode with Bill Heirs.
0:18.0	Some people very much disliked it.
0:20.3	Some people enjoyed the conversation. I hear all sides. I appreciate all sides and what's
0:26.1	wonderful about the dispatch community is everyone articulates their view, I think, in a pretty
0:31.1	smart way and even when I might disagree with what's being
0:35.8	written I find the reasoning and the thought behind it worth my time to
0:40.4	to think about and contemplate to see if I am doing a good job and the right job.
0:47.6	So I appreciate everyone who writes comments.
0:50.7	Please keep doing those.
0:52.0	My guest today is George Packer. He is a staff writer at The
0:56.7	Atlantic and the author of many books, including a biography of Richard Holbeck called Our Man, Richard Holbrook, in the end of the American
1:05.7	century.
1:06.7	He's also the author of The Unwinding and Inner History of the New America and many other books.
1:11.5	The reason I have him on the podcast today for a
1:14.7	important conversation, it's actually longer than usual, is because of a
1:18.6	peace he wrote in 2019 when the Cultural War comes for the kids.
1:23.0	It's an incredibly important piece.
1:24.7	I've been recommending it for the last five years.
1:27.2	And I think it answers a question that I've been asking
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