THIS IS A PHENOMENON I’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT FOR GOING ON TWO DECADES:

This is a story about a college lost down the rabbit hole of performative progressivism. But at its heart, it’s about labor exploitation, the hell we put contingent profs through, and how the collapse of the tenure-system paved the way for cowardice and pseudo-radical groupthink. https://t.co/CmAd0zJrRe pic.twitter.com/nhniuUNFyu

— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) August 10, 2026

I linked it earlier, but if you missed it here’s the underlying article in The Atlantic, which is excellent.