The Kids Are Alright: Teaching Civics in College

Heard Tell · Oct 19, 2026 · 53m

Historically when West Virginians and Kentuckians get together, bad stuff happens, but our friend Jeffrey Tyler Syck digitally reached across the metaphorical Tug Fork in friendship, so we kept it peaceful and informative. Tyler’s a professor and civics director down at the University of Pikeville and previously taught at the University of Virgnia. We talk about the actual “kids these days”; not the online stereotypes, not the memes, not the blithering generalities and put downs of young people these days, before we get into the policy stuff. We turn down the noise on how/why they get…