“Far from Representing a Powerful Avant-Garde Leading the Way to Political Change, …
From Prof. Michael W. Clune, in the Chronicle of Higher Education; the whole piece is much worth reading, but here’s one passage: The second problem with thinking of a professor’s work in explicitly political terms is that professors are terrible at politics. This is especially true of professors at elite colleges. Professors who — like myself — work in institutions that pride themselves on rejecting 70 to 95 percent of their applicants, and whose students overwhelmingly come from the […]