Colleges have come to be known as havens for divisive politics, cancel culture, and trollism, all miserably co-existing with academic stress, social pressure and stale pizza. In Episode 18, “Civil society and Campus Politics,” The Purple Principle profiles two college students pushing back against the polarizing forces on college campuses and the nation writ large. 

Avinash Bakshi, President of the Penn State College Independents, describes the importance of having a third, less tribal option among political groups on his campus of 40,000 undergraduates. While Tyler Swanson, sophomore at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and founder of the student-run Bipartisan Post, decided fact-based reportage was the best method to counter disinformation, echo chambers, and polarization on his and other campuses around the country.

Tune in to hear that all is not quite lost in our not so United States, assuming a growing number of college students like Avinash and Tyler join the fight against polarization as a true threat to American higher education, politics, and society.   

Original Music by Ryan Adair Rooney.

For show notes and transcript, please visit our website: www.fluentknowledge.com/shows/the-purple-principle/civil-society-and-campus-politics