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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Political Battles Over Education
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Sam Weaver discuss political controversies that have erupted in the last two years around the discussion of controversial issues, like race or gender, in public schools. They analyze the causes of these political battles and what it would take to resolve them.
Among the topics covered:
The recent history of attempts to control the content of education by both the left and the right;Why right-wing attempts to influence education make headlines and leftist efforts do not;How the focus on controversial topics rather than educational fundamentals reveals a lack...