American Universities Used to Be the Envy of the World. Not Any More.

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen by Burt Cohen

Aug 24, 202635:40News & Politics

Colleges and universities are now places where elites are cultivated. They are to fit nicely into the oligarchical system. Working class students are saddled with outrageous debt while the morale of underpaid professors...

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