Instead of desperately clinging to the frayed edges of the university—like being an adjunct and working at four different universities in one semester, running around crazy, and not having time for the research or mentoring you meant to do in the first place—if that’s the only way you can stay connected to the university, it might be better to say, ‘okay, I’ve been pushed out of the university,’ and think about how those people can use the education they’ve received to try to build the other kinds of institutions that the left really needs. And these kinds of institutions can complement the kind of work that happens in universities.
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