Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades of austerity and neoliberal iniquity.

“House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?” by Daniel Bessner thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis

“Extinction Event: Given what is to come, schools of every kind are now at risk” by Simon Torracinta nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/

“After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America” by Dan Denvir in Jacobin jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joe-biden-imperialism-trump-america