EPISODE · May 26, 2026 · 56 MIN
MAGAcademy: How corporatism paved the way for the hostile takeover of higher ed. w/ Nolan Higdon (G&R 496)
from Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals · host Green and Red
🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast.Trump’s war on universities , DEI and student activism have been well documented over the past 18 months. But his ability to do this is a result of an architecture put in place by neoliberalism and university administrators. They turned the university into a for profit corporation and transformed students into consumers. Trump has taken this model and used it to wage war on higher education. In our latest, we talk with Nolan Higdon, scholar and author of MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed., about how corporatism created a blueprint for Trump's hostile takeover of the university. Guest bio//Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author and host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast. He is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored Judge. Higdon's popular Substack includes the bi-weekly Gaslight Gazette, which chronicles important and well-researched examples of disinformation, character assassination, and censorship in the United States. He is the author of MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed. ———-Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//🌐 Gaslight Gazette (https://substack.com/@nolanhigdon)🔖 MAGAcademy (https://bit.ly/42L3e0f) 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast.Trump’s war on universities , DEI and student activism have been well documented over the past 18 months. But his ability to do this is a result of an architecture put in place by neoliberalism and university administrators. They turned the university into a for profit corporation and transformed students into consumers. Trump has taken this model and used it to wage war on higher education. In our latest, we talk with Nolan Higdon, scholar and author of MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed., about how corporatism created a blueprint for Trump's hostile takeover of the university. Guest bio//Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author and host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast. He is a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored Judge. Higdon's popular Substack includes the bi-weekly Gaslight Gazette, which chronicles important and well-researched examples of disinformation, character assassination, and censorship in the United States. He is the author of MAGAcademy: How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed. ———-Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//🌐 Gaslight Gazette (https://substack.com/@nolanhigdon)🔖 MAGAcademy (https://bit.ly/42L3e0f) 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.
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