Whatever the right and wrong of the matter, the phenomenology of the Academy is certainly of extreme interest and importance to the users of HN. I haven’t been

Whatever the right and wrong of the matter, the phenomenology of the Academy is certainly of extreme interest and importance to the users of HN. I haven’t been anywhere near a university in years personally, so I don’t know what credence to lend claims that politics, and in particular non-academic politics, are to an increasing an untenable degree crowding out more knowledge-oriented activities. With that said, one does hear claims like this, which would be worrying if true, and data points / discussion around it is almost certainly on topic for HN right?