# Why America’s higher education is broken - Rebecca Kuang

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Podcast: [Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ways-to-change-the-world-with-krishnan-guru-murthy-730381)
Published: 2025-12-26T06:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/waystochangetheworld/episodes/Why-Americas-higher-education-is-broken---Rebecca-Kuang-e3chnpm
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Duration seconds: 2497

## Resource

Rebecca Kuang is the bestselling novelist whose books explore some of the most fraught debates of our time, interrogating racism in publishing, cultural appropriation, tokenism and diversity politics. Her novel Yellowface in particular struck a nerve, highlighting the pressures and hypocrisies of the modern literary world, from social media mobbing and cancel culture to the uncomfortable questions about who gets to tell which stories. On this episode of Ways to Change the World, she speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy why America’s higher education is broken and why AI is not a threat to literature.

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