Knowledge and Nostalgia: Why a University Education Should Be Free (Louisa Munch)

What is the point of going to university? In this episode, Amol
sits down with the critical theorist, academic and social media
influencer Louisa Munch who thinks you shouldn’t have to pay for
higher education.


With the graduate premium in decline, she explains why people
should go to university to gain knowledge rather than get a job
because she believes having an informed society is good for
everyone in an era of competing narratives about the past.


She also reflects on why people of her generation feel
disillusioned and what can be done to give them some hope for the
future.


(00:05:04) What is critical theory? (00:06:06) Why she believes
university should be free (00:12:50) University as a meritocracy
(00:18:45) Is student debt worth it? (00:22:06) Thoughts on class
divide (00:26:23) Nostalgia and the far right (00:37:28)
Disenchantment about the future (00:43:32) Nostalgia in
contemporary politics (00:47:30) Louisa's RADICAL ideas
(00:49:08) Political movements of the next generation


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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before
that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The
Independent.


Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis
Vickers with Anna Budd. Digital production was by Gabriel
Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by Gareth Jones and
Dafydd Evans. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is
Owenna Griffiths.