Naming the Devil gives you the power to fight it, but by aspiring to be a mainstream academic James doesn't have answers to the problems he highlights. The Ivory Tower needs to be torched, but James is trying to save it.
I suspect he'll give up trying to save the university. I think he's smart enough to recognize that we're playing a losing game with reform.
What's needed is a purge and a rebuilding, and this can be done with state-funded public universities, as we see with DeSantis and Rufo in FL.
I think he's smart enough to recognize that we're playing a losing game with them.
I think he still identifies as a liberal, and that isn't a position he's reasoned himself into, so he'll be a long time disengaging from that element of his identity.
I suspect he'll give up trying to save the university. I think he's smart enough to recognize that we're playing a losing game with reform.
What's needed is a purge and a rebuilding, and this can be done with state-funded public universities, as we see with DeSantis and Rufo in FL.
I think he still identifies as a liberal, and that isn't a position he's reasoned himself into, so he'll be a long time disengaging from that element of his identity.