To call the world we live in “fractured,” “divided,” or “splintered” would be to grossly underestimate the cultural split continuing to grow within this country. With more and more issues dividing people across various party lines, one would hope that few things could unite people more than the further growth of a young person’s education. However, as free market capitalism expands into areas rarely reached previously, modern American higher education has evolved into one of this nation’s most polarizing issues.
As seen in a new documentary from director Steve Mims, entitled Starving The Beast (which draws its name from the very philosophy that it attempts to skewer), the state of modern American public higher education is one of shifting ideologies that have evolved students from simply men and women looking for further education to consumers in a capitalist venture.
Opening with a rousing speech from James Carville, one...
As seen in a new documentary from director Steve Mims, entitled Starving The Beast (which draws its name from the very philosophy that it attempts to skewer), the state of modern American public higher education is one of shifting ideologies that have evolved students from simply men and women looking for further education to consumers in a capitalist venture.
Opening with a rousing speech from James Carville, one...
- 9/9/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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