As if we needed any more evidence for the utter moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the university.

I thought something was fishy thirty years ago when I discovered the lunacy of literary criticism ("Exaybachay! Talk loud, say nothing!") and the sinister plot of "interdisciplinary studies." I thought they were just examples of academic wool-gathering and careerism.

Little did I know.

Let the institution collapse and limp off to the tar pits.