Evan Mandery: How Elite Colleges Divide, Disorient, and Diminish Us


Author: Andrew Keen October 29, 2022 Duration: 41:32
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Evan Mandery: How Elite Colleges Divide, Disorient, and Diminish Us

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Evan Mandery, author of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us.

An Emmy and Peabody Award winner, Evan Mandery is a professor at the City University of New York. He has written for the New York Times and Politico and has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. His journey as a Harvard alum publicly challenging legacy admissions at elite schools led him to write Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us (The New Press). He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.


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