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S4 E11. Learning Curbed
Democracy in Danger
English - May 04, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 63.1 MBSociety & Culture News Politics democracy election history illiberalism media news politics unitedstates world Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: S4 E10. Crisis of Faith
Next Episode: S4 E12. Criminal Laws
Education is our subject this week. You’ve heard all about attacks on the teaching of racism and slavery, about the banning of books on the Holocaust and gender identity, about Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill. Public schools are ground zero in the battle over American civic life. But this is nothing new, historian Natalia Petrzela says. She locates the roots of such controversies in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s that continue to play out today, in a climate of discontent muddled by pandemic anxieties.