Connecticut College

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Shout out to our co-hosts, Susan Tree in Pennsylvania, Lisa Rupp in North Carolina, two admission officers from Colorado, Hillary Dittman from Colorado College, Kate Strickman from CU Boulder, Vince Garcia in California, Julia Esquivel in Massachusetts, Linda Deppker in Missouri, Andy Strickler, the chief enrollment officer at Connecticut College, Heath Einstein, the chief enrollment officer at TCU in Fort Worth, Carter DiLauro, a co-director of college counseling in New York, and Christina Lopez, the former dean of admission at Barnard College.

And our international call specialist, Kevin Newton from Dallas, Texas.

Our stupendous sound engineer who makes everything happen is Nemanja Motjovic from Serbia.

We have a fantastic team that has over 200 years of admission and counseling experience.

Shout out to our co-hosts, Susan Tree in Pennsylvania, Lisa Rupp in North Carolina, two admission officers from Colorado, Hilary Dickman from Colorado College, Kate Strickland from CU Boulder, Vince Garcia in California, Julia Esquivel in Massachusetts, Linda Depker in Missouri, Andy Strickler, the chief enrollment officer at Connecticut College, Heath Einstein, the chief enrollment officer at TCU in Fort Worth, Carter Delauro, a co-director of college counseling in New York, and Christina Lopez, the former dean of admission at Barnard College.

And our international call specialist, Kevin Newton from Dallas, Texas.

Our stupendous sound engineer who makes everything happen is Nemanya Matich from Serbia.

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But, uh, in fulfilling my core education requirements at college, I went to Connecticut College, um, here in New England.

I found myself in a Philosophy 101 class with a wonderful professor named Derek Turner, who was the perfect mix of enthusiastic, cool, nerdy, and just kinda into it, and I really, I really connected with the, I'm gonna use a totally unphilosophical term, the thinkiness of it.

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Assuming we have food and shelter, health insurance and recreation, is more always better? In Growth Machines: On the Hollow Joys of Consumption in the Desert of Economic Life, Mark Joseph Steltzner interrogates the drive and trade-offs of consumption under capitalism.

He's Associate Professor of Economics at Connecticut College.

Mark, the economics profession tells us, and many, many of us believe, that greater consumption leads to greater happiness.

Is this borne out in fact?

It was, it was a pleasure.

Mark Joseph Steltzner has been my guest.

He's associate professor of economics at Connecticut College, and we've been discussing Growth Machines: On the Hollow Joys of Consumption in the Desert of Economic Life.

You've been listening to Against the Grain.

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Our stupendous sound engineer who makes everything happen is Nemanya Motvich from Serbia.

Our reliable webmaster is John Rooney.

I think Cal Berkeley is like, hey, we made it all the way up to number 215, climbing the list.

But, you know, some places, you know, that really make you shake your head, Connecticut College, I think that's UConn, right? And then the ones that, you know, University of Kentucky, How do you get down there? But it's the wokeness on campus.

And we tie this in with the DEI being pulled out from the American Bar Association guidelines for law schools.

And we'll tell you about that and get into it.

We have a fantastic team that has over 200 years of admission and counseling experience.

Shout out to our co-hosts, Susan Tree in Pennsylvania, Lisa Routh in North Carolina, two admission officers from Colorado, Hilary Dickman from Colorado College, Kate Strickland from CU Boulder, Vince Garcia in California, Julia Esquivel in Massachusetts, Linda Depker in Missouri, Andy Strickler, the chief enrollment officer at Connecticut College, Heath Einstein, the chief enrollment officer at TCU in Fort Worth, Carter Dilauro, a co-director of college counseling in New York, and Christina Lopez, the former dean of admission at Barnard College.

And our international call specialist, Kevin Newton from Dallas, Texas.

Our stupendous sound engineer, who makes everything happen, is Nemanya Matovic from Serbia.

Yeah, of course.

And with Chenie, something similar is that I curated the show for the New Media Caucus, and then the next, like, four months later, I'm curating the Ammerman Show in Connecticut College, and Chenie is also in that show.

That was the first time to meet in person, and I was surprised, and I was really happy, too.

So, and then we ran into each other in New York and like several other things, even if it's very briefly.

Sometimes they're like, this is what we'd like people to think we're eating.

I think I gave this example in the book, but When I was, I was a visiting professor at Connecticut College, and there was this cookbook that came out of this synagogue.

And this is a cookbook my mother did have, and I don't know how she got it, because this was one, another community cookbook that did have a deal with a mainstream press.

So it did come out as a paperback from Dover, one edition.