OK you ask for it, you get it. This will be Academia is Stupid Part I: Research Almost all humanities & social sciences research in the Anglophone world happens at an extremely elementary level, and is to a large degree repetitive, unoriginal, or wrong.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1383860266341834757 …
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that great swathes of them have done away with their fields and do pseudo-scholarship, and travel for fun to fake conferences on their massive research budgets: this is a feature, not a bug for them.
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there are no allies to be had in these institutions, and anybody trying to reform them will be immediately excluded, even more efficiently than they have already excluded many scholars with original ideas and rigorous research programmes, because they found them threatening.
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They are an insular and arrogantly powerful elite. But the job security is not absolute. North American universities have a demographic crisis of fewer students. Canada especially.https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/local-news/i-was-terminated-from-laurentian-university-today …
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yes, good point. one should never overstate this. though, at elite American institutions, the tenured faculty are in very high and imposing towers.
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