Good time to talk about how the Powell memo targeted universities as incubators of “statism,” encouraging conservative politicians to pull public $ from them and corporate funders to demand more control. The result? skyrocketing tuition & increased corporate influence on campus
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If you’re worried about anti-corporate sentiment on college campuses, make college so expensive that grads will have to join the corporate sphere rather than criticize it. No surprise then to see the reticence of pro-corporate politicians in both parties to rolling all that back
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Ties into the post-war “save the free market” hysteria too. This is a relatively quick listen on both: