In the Land of the Academic, the Idiot Is King

On the Rise of Institutional Stupidity and the Fetish of Credentials

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By the time you read this, I suspect I will be sacked. (Yep, July 7) I’m not sure if it’s because I said I stood with Israel, or because I called Hamas Nazi, or that I hurt someone high up’s feelings with historical truth. Maybe it’s the way I dress. Gotta be something.

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Let us begin, if we must, with a proposition so grotesquely overdue it ought to be tattooed on the forehead of every university vice-provost: the word “academic” should be a pejorative.