I can only imagine the immense frustration encountered when trying to get an academic job after years of effort getting your phd and working in a university wit

I can only imagine the immense frustration encountered when trying to get an academic job after years of effort getting your phd and working in a university with an expiring job. I was lucky to be interested in being an engineer and finding mostly fulfillment in industry after finishing my phd. But most of my friends from cs grad school who went on to academia had an extremely frustrating experience looking for tenure as CS profs. 25-30 years ago there was not yet the same infinite demand for phd devs in industry that soaked up so many of the potential professors; today the much smaller supply of potential profs makes it a different situation. It was hard to get a tenured job in cs (and probably still is). And pretty much all of my friends encountered several attempts to get tenure, with one person notably having to sue the university twice to avoid getting fired on false pretenses and then eventually to be considered for tenure. One person went through 3-4 schools before he got tenure. It's just a terrible meat grinder in academia. I have a friend who also got stuck into the "multiple jobs paying nothing at different community colleges" world. And they were not facing the question of are you a marxist or not. I was wondering why that article was at quillette. Then I got a couple of pages in and saw the grousing at not fitting into the categories of marxist or ideological. Your piece would have been stronger without the dog whistles related to conservative-focused concerns. Almost every young prof could have written an early career jeremiad related to the idea that old profs didn't care about teaching - it was my experience too! I loved teaching, and hated trying to publish small incremental ideas. Good luck and I wish you said what you were doing now.