After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics-and How to Fix It

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, a deeply reported look at the broken state of college in America, arguing that access to college is the defining political issue of our time, propelling everything from Occupy Wall Street to the election of Donald Trump to the George Floyd protests.

Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adver...