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New Interview-Evan Mandery-How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery
Preview of Part 1 of 3 :
- markEvan gives his background
- Evan talks his book Poison Ivy and he tells us how it lead to a non-profit organization, called, “classactionorg” that fights legacy preferences, for great educational equality on elite campuses
- Evan gives an overview of the article that will be the basis of our interview; it was written in Mother Jones, and it is entitled, How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High Status Careers and Misery
- Evan discusses why we don’t teach, how to live a happy life
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