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Counterpoint: Universities should do *more* research and there should be *much more* public investment in resources like paid assistantships and internships that make it possible for students of all means to participate in it.

never ceases to amaze me that higher education is the only industry in America where people routinely get away with abusing their customers and saying that they don't know what the fuck they want or what they are talking about

professors are professional researchers in their respective fields. teaching has almost always been secondary to research in neoliberal academia. without research grants, most professors would need side gigs, like secondary teachers.

Yale tenure denials who care about educating citizens of the world take a job in the provinces, and carry on publishing, teaching, pursuing truth. Others move to Portland and write screeds for conservative rags attacking the academy. Leave some room for natural and social sciences in that agenda.

Coordinated in leaks of billionaires, their mediocre elite media editors, old men angry at woke MeToo, far-right extremists: Rufo: "these chats a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who were most likely high-impact new partners for the right." "Hanania saw Andreessen radicalize"

Thomas Chatterton Williams said he gets his from group chat with Andreessen: "If you weren't in the business, you'd think everyone was arriving at conclusions independently - and [they're] not. It's a small group who talk to each other and overlap between politics and journalism and a few industries

Jay Caspian Kang latest higher education right wing talking points: "Why would we give up our spots at selective schools to benefit the same people who attack us in the streets?" www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/o... 'People of Color' Do Not Belong to the Democratic Party www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/o...

Please ask Jay Caspian Kang if his history of criticizing higher education is related to his conservative history of primarily criticizing "How Liberals Talk" and "resistance libs" (his words) and being platformed by the NYT and New Yorker as a token minority attacking other minorities: