There's a rot in US academia ... ballooning costs, useless degrees that confer no perceivable boost in the job market, swollen bureaucracies. Unions might help

There's a rot in US academia ... ballooning costs, useless degrees that confer no perceivable boost in the job market, swollen bureaucracies. Unions might help one part of the ecosystem: the grad students, but it could also make overall reform harder. I look at US Academia's complexities and it seems to me an easier approach to reform is to start from scratch via new institutions.