How College Broke The American Dream

08/04/22 • 46 min

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Journalist Will Bunch says instead of opening the door to a better life, college leaves many students deep in debt and unable to find well-paying jobs. His new book is After the Ivory Tower Falls.
Podcast critic Nick Quah reviews two podcasts about counterculture, Mother Country Radicals and I Was Never There.
Also, we remember radio pioneer Larry Josephson.

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