Two shocking observations: 1950s children knew enough about the obscure Barbary Wars to buy toy soldier sets of them, while TWO-THIRDS of today's 10-year-olds are functionally illiterate. College professors confirm each new class is increasingly anxious, less knowledgeable, and less skilled than before. This episode examines why American education has become so expensive, biased, ineffective and universally disliked—revealing surprising connections to history, anthropology, and Game Theory.
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Bibliography:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Seeing like a State by James C Scott
The Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of Civilization by Will Durant
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West by Edward Dutton
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Bullfinch's Mythology
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt
The Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st century by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The History of Manners by Norbert Elias
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Pursuit of Power by William McNeil
Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuel by Ian Morris
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
After Liberalism by Gottfried
Woke Racism by John McWhorter
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
The Master and His Emissary by McGhilchrist
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
The Rise of the West by William McNeil
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
The Coddling of the American Mind by John Haidt
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
20 Dec 202358min
