Daniel Bessner – The End of the American Century

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=0s" target="_blank">0:00</a> The gigification of academia</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=506s" target="_blank">8:26</a> Is education just another commodity?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=1094s" target="_blank">18:14</a> What do historians do?</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=1582s" target="_blank">26:22</a> Daniel: The university system is an unregulated cartel</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=2108s" target="_blank">35:08</a> The liberalism (not the leftism) of the university</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=2302s" target="_blank">38:22</a> Using (and getting used by) new technology</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=2599s" target="_blank">43:19</a> An alternate history of global economic development</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=2849s" target="_blank">47:29</a> The end of the American century</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOyD1bp97A&#38;t=3267s" target="_blank">54:27</a> Daniel’s critique of US support for Ukraine</p><p>Recorded February 7, 2023</p><p>Links and Readings</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/opinion/american-history-college-university-academia.html" target="_blank">Daniel’s NYT op-ed, “The Dangerous Decline of the Historical Profession”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLomHJ_EwngABrT-w7Dawf0j3cGoikXYRU" target="_blank">Daniel’s TGS mini-series, “Glenn Loury’s Intellectual Origins”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-History-Last-Man/dp/0743284550" target="_blank">Francis Fukuyama’s book, </a><em>The End of History and the Last Man</em></p><p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/francis-fukuyama-liberalism-discontents/" target="_blank">Daniel’s essay on Fukuyama for the </a><em>Nation</em><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/francis-fukuyama-liberalism-discontents/" target="_blank">, “A Bad Breakup”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gig-Academy-Neoliberal-University-Innovation/dp/1421432706" target="_blank">Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott’s book, </a><em>The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University</em></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Schooling-Capitalist-America-Educational-Contradictions/dp/1608461319" target="_blank">Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis’s book, </a><em>Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life</em></p><p><a href="https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/september-2022/is-history-history-identity-politics-and-teleologies-of-the-present" target="_blank">James Sweet’s column, “Is History History?”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ahas-mission-needs-to-change/" target="_blank">Daniel’s </a><em>Chronicle of Higher Education </em><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-ahas-mission-needs-to-change/" target="_blank">piece, “The AHA’s Mission Needs to Change”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peasants-into-Frenchmen-Modernization-1870-1914/dp/0804710139" target="_blank">Eugen Weber’s book, </a><em>Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914</em></p><p><a href="https://www.americanprestigepod.com/" target="_blank">Daniel’s podcast, </a><em>American Prestige</em></p><p><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2022/07/what-comes-after-the-american-century/" target="_blank">Daniel’s Harper’s </a><em>Harper’s </em><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2022/07/what-comes-after-the-american-century/" target="_blank">piece, “Empire Burlesque”</a></p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/170890/does-american-fascism-exist" target="_blank">Daniel’s </a><em>New Republic </em><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/170890/does-american-fascism-exist" target="_blank">piece, “Does American Fascism Exist?</a></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">glennloury.substack.com/subscribe</a>