WeWork Don’t Work Anymore

This week, Eric, Dylan, and Emily work over the news that WeWork, a company that provides flexible office workspace, will file for bankruptcy this week. Was it a victim of the pandemic? A creature of a low-interest-rate economy and a venture-capital mentality that said they’d figure out how to be profitable at some point that never arrived? Both? Next, legendary and controversial college basketball coach Bobby Knight passed away last week at the age of 83. What does Knight’s ends-justify-the-means success tell us about civic, economic, and church life? And finally, nearly 3,000 former Morehouse College students had their student debt erased without any government action. Is it true that debt relief is yours if you want it, whether or not Washington intervenes? Subscribe to our podcasts WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says | Reuters Monetary Policy Is Working | Dominic Pino, National Review Legendary basketball coach Bob Knight dies at 83 | ESPN The Bobby Knight Problem | “The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill,” Christianity Today The Last Days of Knight | ESPN 30 for 30 These former HBCU students owed their college nearly $10 million. The debt was just erased | USA Today Student Loans and the Sin of Usury | James Caton & Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute