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Sounds,16 Feb 2024,40 mins

The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Revisionist History

Available for over a year

Consider this your invitation to the greatest award show no one’s ever heard of: the Pushkin Prizes, created to honor the giants of the American education system. This year, Malcolm is celebrating one prominent university that decided to play the US News & World Report at its own dirty rankings game—and smeared themselves in the process. Featuring an eagle-eyed math professor, our favorite data scientist, and the legend of one disgraced congressman.

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