Has someone considered the ambiguity of the phrase 'child eating contest,' one wonders?

I'm so very sorry.

I'm looking forward to there being a day when I can congratulate you on having to write God knows how many recontracting, tenure, and promotion packets. Hang in there.

Aware that this is basically your point, but this is also making me very curious re: demographic breakdowns of these various workforces (beyond the screamingly obvious bits).

OMG! "In most classes, you had to accept the rules of the game: memorising history dates, conjugating French verbs you will never use, and nod politely at the idea that GDP is a serious measure of well-being. Quite the nightmare."

The other condition, of course, is that universities be (and understand themselves to be) effectively dependent on major philanthropic support.

In particular, the way that all the bot-driven targeted harassment campaigns against academics have worked is by provoking threats to cancel or withhold donations. Those campaigns only work if they can reach rich guys whose brains are cooked by social media.

ETA, the rest of the article is, to be clear, uncritical re: Nuzzi at a nearly pathological level, but the point re: the balance of structural incentives is pretty solid.

The pull quote here strikes me as about right.

1. He said he'd do it, and he did it. 2. I suspect that the calculus is that this is a relatively easy way to avoid antagonizing Trump any sooner than necessary, especially before he's inaugurated and able to put his administration into place. Very likely to ease the transition, at least.

That's a golden age myth. Chain delivery pizza has always been inedible.

Assuming you saw the big piece in the NYT today re: the origins of Vice and its connection to the Alt Right.