Academic Tenure is Patronage
Does It Work?
One way to think of academic tenure is as a kind of patronage. For few strings attached, thinkers are free to produce creative work. What thinkers wouldn’t love tenure, assuming they were able to obtain it for themselves? Tenure isn’t simply a protection from McCarthyism (I doubt it is); but more practically, it is a guardrail against market forces. Aca…
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