Paying Up

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Beth Akers, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins The Remnant for extreme wonkery on student debt and the economics of higher education. Why have the Democrats become so fixated on the issue of forgiving student loan debt, and can a moral argument be made for forgiveness? Furthermore, are most graduate programs pointless? How can we fix America’s universities? And can anyone match Jonah’s raw disdain for journalism schools?

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0:00.0	dear
0:05.1	Sir
0:16.2	please have your attention
0:20.1	I'm really excited about today's episode.
0:36.2	We have had enormous logistical scheduling issues.
0:42.0	All in good faith.
0:43.0	I got sick.
0:44.0	She got sick.
0:45.0	There was a war, all sorts of things.
0:47.4	I had to sacrifice 50 goats to ball.
0:50.2	But anyway, we made it all work.
0:52.7	We have my A.I. colleague, formerly of the Manhattan Institute, our sort of sibling
1:01.9	thing to Hank and Washington, D.C.
1:03.4	I mean, in New York City.
1:06.9	Author of the book, Game of Loans, and her latest book, Making College Pay.
1:14.1	When you say that, you're supposed to say that as you make a sort of twisting pinching
1:18.8	motion with your hand, like you're torturing a younger brother or something like that,
1:25.8	we have Beth Acres, now a full-fledged colleague at the American Enterprise Institute.
1:30.9	And from what I can tell, the foremost expert on all things student loan, which is why ever
1:35.9	since we've Biden made those announcements about student loans or those trial balloons,
1:41.5	we've been trying to get her on.
1:42.6	So, Beth, thank you so much for being here.
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