Tenure

From the comments section of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, about the futility of graduate school in the humanities:

The system is ethically bankrupt. I am walking away from my tenured position (to go into business for myself) this year because I don’t want to be part of it any more. There are well meaning faculty out there. But few, very few, who are willing to tell themselves and their students the truth about our conditions of labor. And the kicker—they know Marx chapter and verse.

What a depressing article, too. Academe is not my destiny, but it’s the destiny of a whole lot of folks I know.