Rebecca Kuang
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Rebecca Kuang qualifies as The Visionary because she treats humanistic education as democratic resistance in itself. Her argument moves from structural diagnosis, tuition inflation of 1300 percent, AI-driven cognitive outsourcing, to an ideological claim that academic freedom is anti-fascist practice. Novelist and Yale doctoral candidate at once, she puts fiction and scholarship in service of a single project: imagining alternative epistemologies and insisting the university classroom can be a site of institutional repair.
“Higher education has been in a tailspin for a really long time — the affordability crisis, the rocketing tuition prices — and it's made itself an easy target as something that is frivolous and elitist and a hotbed of woke leftist ideologies.”
“It is precisely those skills of slow attention, close reading and critical thinking and arguing in good faith that are the safeguards that will protect our ability to connect and make policy in this world of increasing fragmentation.”
“If you're a teacher, care about teaching your students to discern between what's real and what's fake and empower them to think carefully about this world they're inheriting.”
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Why America’s higher education is broken - Rebecca Kuang”
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