Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

In a lot of ways, this article retreads a fairly well-established and uncontested history. But there is a twist here that I'd like to make explicit: it centers the rise of four-year college as the driving and explanatory force behind the rise of edu/cultural polarization — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The mechanisms at play are interesting, since there's relatively little evidence that college attendance makes people more liberal. But at the same time, it's basically impossible to imagine the modern left without the university, whether it's 60s New Left or ideas like CRT today — PolitiTweet.org