Comment by 2devnull

I think what we call academia isn’t really academia, but a system that’s subservient to the desires of the state. The dollars come from somewhere and there are always strings attached. Sure, a tenured professor has more freedom than the average federal employee, but only because the state hasn’t felt the need to tighten the screws. If policy interests ever diverged from interests of the universities, I think we’d quickly learn that academia of today is not at all what it presupposes itself to be. It’s more of less the Ministry of Truth, to extent required by those who hold the purse strings.