Many criticisms of academia are floating around — I’ve made some of them myself — including: peer review is inefficient and unfair, academic publishers are greedy parasites, academics are woke self-righteous lefty loons, universities are incompetently managed
It’s not the impassioned leftwingers; it’s the ones who come up in the corridor afterwards and mumble “a lot of us agree with you, but….”
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