The current student debt crisis was the preventable result of decades of poor policy decisions at the state and federal levels. From the G.I. Bill to Reaganomics to the Trump era culture wars, student loans grew into a primary means of accessing higher education for millions of Americans. All the while, private entities profited from students' suffering, and the government fell victim to waste and inefficiency.
What's the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of "The Gilded Age" before turning to a critique of resistance history from within the discipline, and a response from a prominent historian, a consideration of the standpoint of resistance history, and why aren't there more literary critics on MSNBC?
