"Corrupting the Youth": Episode 6
In a nine-part comic series, Ivan Ascher explores the university, the pandemic, and philosophy.
By Ivan AscherSeptember 10, 2020
Harvey and Hanna are students in K's modern political theory class. One day, a pandemic shuts down the university and the course has to move online. Thankfully, K's friends are there to help. With cameo appearances by Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, "Corrupting the Youth" introduces the reader to political theory in times of crisis.
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Ivan Ascher teaches political theory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and coedits the politics section at Public Books. He is the author of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction, published by Zone Books in 2016.
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