Is College A Conformity Test? | Bryan Caplan

About this episode

Bryan Caplan discusses the idea that education has become a religion and the implications of conformity within it.

I spent an hour with Bryan Caplan, who argues that education has become a religion; most people inside it are too compromised to admit it. More from Bryan Website: http://www.bcaplan.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.caplan.1/ X: https://x.com/bryan_caplan Substack: https://substack.com/@betonit YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanDCaplan Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bryan-Douglas-Caplan/author/B001JSCEV0 Click here for more Peter Boghossian .

People in this episode

Host: Peter Boghossian

Guest: Bryan Caplan

Topics covered

• education
• conformity
• society
• culture
• religion

Keywords

• college
• education
• conformity test
• Bryan Caplan
• society
• culture

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