I had the same experience last spring when I found money to buy the new Capital translation for a class…made all the difference.

I imagine you’re looking for something a bit more substantial but this comment on that Current Affairs article had an in nuce truth about it: “if a chatbot can collapse your entire model, maybe the model wasn’t education — it was credential vending with academic cosplay."

Hard agree. I printed it out and keep returning to it at the end of another confounding day. I find it particularly good for framing what’s happening w.r.t higher ed: putting pressure on those now brittle contradictions etc.

Was just rereading your first book on science vs market logic and Big Science. We’ve forgotten or were just ignorant about the complexities and politicking that made the post war university- science settlement. And what a historical anomaly