Higher Ed in Crisis

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades of austerity and neoliberal iniquity. "House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?" by Daniel Bessner thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis "Extinction Event: Given what is to come, schools of every kind are now at risk" by Simon Torracinta nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/ "After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America" by Dan Denvir in Jacobin jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joe-biden-imperialism-trump-america

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0:22.0	Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest
0:26.2	system ever to grace the planet. In the same breath they implore us to leave the
0:32.0	job of understanding the magical powers of the market
0:35.1	to the experts. Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise,
0:42.0	many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and want and disregard for its own environmental destruction.
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1:20.0	that shape so many of our struggles today.
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1:33.0	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm
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