Harper's defence of why universities deserve harsher scrutiny than other institutions, not gentler: a bank that shades the truth is being a bank, but a university that does it has broken the one promise that justifies its existence.
…crises that are festering within the university. So I really just, I really think the debate we're having right now is solely about these sort of superficial problems of what ideas do we want on campus without solving what is, in my mind, a labor crisis, a tuition crisis, an exploitation crisis.
And you are on-ramping right into my next question, which is, I think, the necessary follow-up. What are the symptoms of... Rapacious corporate ideology as you see it within higher education. We're talking tuition, debt, adjunct pay levels, decline in tenure professors. Unpack this one for us.
…that bears on the educational mission or causes problems for the educational mission, is the adjunctification of faculty and the move from a professoriate in the 20th century that was almost overwhelmingly tenure stream, right? Tenured or on the tenure track, to a professoriate that is overwhelmingly not tenure stream and is overwhelmingly contract workers who can be fired more or less at will. Academia is one of the only businesses, if you want to call it that, in this country, the enterprise of which is truth-telling. And the point of the tenure system was to secure the ability of academics to say what they think without fear of the hammer coming down on them or their employment being made vulnerable, right? It is not a coincidence. If you look in the mid-20th century, it was not just the high point of tenure on American campuses. It was also the high point of intellectual diversity on the American campuses.…
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Yeah, I think social media certainly turbocharged it, right? And I would include technological change as a Marxist under the set of like material conditions that are changing in society, right? And I think that the rise of social media creates an atmosphere in which not only, yes, can the…