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Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life

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The Commodification of Higher Education

I think that the higher education in the United States has sort of been taken over by this neoliberal business model. And I, you know, I think that there's all of this administrative bloat. A lot of young people go into a good university like the one that I teach at for instance, with the idea that this is like they're burnishing their personal brand. That education is a very individual thing for each person to take what they can from and then go out and become "good little capitalist workers"

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