After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It - Will Bunch Audiobook
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life
“This book is simply terrific.”—Heather Cox Richardson, publisher of the “Letters from an American” Substack
“A must-read.”—Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains
Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries—seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called “knowledge economy” of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of America’s commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat.
In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand “the college question,” there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair.
From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., beginning with the first technical schools, through the landmark GI Bill, and the culture wars of the 60’s and 70’s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself—and how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over again—what, and who, is college even for?—and pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans.
The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic division—and charts a path forward for America.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 3.7/5
August 12th, 2022
written by 5 year old maga, thus, the ludicrous title.
August 12th, 2022
They are broadly correct, while still somehow managing to be wrong on every specific. Which is actually very impressive. Like scoring 0% on a 100 question, 4 option, multiple choice test without studying and not on purpose.
To be clear, the thing they are broadly correct about is that the higher education system in the US is screwed up. They are wrong about every reason for why this is the case. A bit like saying that Nazi Germany was terrible because of the detrimental effect it had on rubber prices in the 1940s. And for no other reason. The claim is correct, but the justification is absurd.
August 12th, 2022
The extent of 3rd-level debt over there is truly astounding, it seems like a bewildering cost-benefit calculus, probably best not undertaken if you’re already committed to a degree. Even here, where the costs are significantly lower, I used to look with envy at some of my non-college or post-college peers, who had eventually opted for manual trades. There was a building boom, and some of the guys were electricians, plumbers, or generally involved in the building trade. They were easily earning the equiv of hospital consultant cash. Meanwhile, I was relatively impoverished & immured in the university experience for over 10 yrs in toto (and no, I wasn’t just repeating foundation level).
On narrow ideology, it ought not be the medium of exchange; a full, balanced education facilitates the student (consumer?) in properly critiquing all ideology. However, this really just impacts the social sciences & ephemeral student politics; plus these are merely passing trends.
August 18th, 2022
Wow, the rift is widening. The thing is, the educated left are mostly in cities, but the most of the right are the ones out in the smaller communities, and they know how to grow food, build things, they are handy with their hands. The left can read books and talk like they know everything. When some disaster comes along, like our economy crashing, or the looming food shortages, you will see the left in their cities cannibalizing each other, while the right will have guns, food and supplies. Sounds like a win for the less educated right.
September 26th, 2022
@Hogweed
Things found in books:
Instructions to produce improvised explosive
Instructions to produce chemical weapons
Maps of likely targets in exquisite detail
Accounts of successfully used guerilla tactics
Robotics assembly instructions
Drone piloting instructions
We’ll see.
October 5th, 2022
Thank you for this!
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