Why America’s higher education is broken - Rebecca Kuang

Rebecca Kuang is the bestselling novelist whose books explore some of the most fraught debates of our time, interrogating racism in publishing, cultural appropriation, tokenism and diversity politics. Her novel Yellowface in particular struck a nerve, highlighting the pressures and hypocrisies of the modern literary world, from social media mobbing and cancel culture to the uncomfortable questions about who gets to tell which stories. On this episode of Ways to Change the World, she speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy why America’s higher education is broken and why AI is not a threat to literature.

You can listen to Why America’s higher education is broken - Rebecca Kuang online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Why America’s higher education is broken - Rebecca Kuang is an episode from Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy by Channel 4 News.

This episode is 00:41:37 long.

This episode was published on Dec 26, 2025.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.