Seated In Action

In the first half of today’s episode, your hosts tread carefully into the deep, hot water (though Andrew flubs this by making a spicy joke right off the batt) that is Jordan B. Peterson’s political and philosophical oeuvre. Your hosts begin their critique of Peterson’s PragerU by talking about the way the federal and state governments allocate funds into the education system (both lower and higher education systems) in order to address the first of many claims Peterson makes. They also attempt to articulate and demystify the fundamental differences between different types of colleges and, by extension, the differences in the types of students who attend said colleges. They round out the episode by discussing the many benefits of the American University system and discuss some, obviously not all, of the major flaws (real flaws) that plague an otherwise healthy institution of intellectual pursuit. In the second half of the episode, your hosts read their first listener email. In an attempt to set a precedent, An