Perhaps it seems more difficult to earn tenure because ambitious frauds who choke up the system know the worst thing that they can do to themselves is let any h

Perhaps it seems more difficult to earn tenure because ambitious frauds who choke up the system know the worst thing that they can do to themselves is let any honest, rigorous, critically minded academic move up. Stack committees with myopic pointyheads, strategize departmental budgeting and approvals to keep them in a state of vague paranoia and conflict with each other, and enjoy having a divided, distracted, powerless faculty body? Look up who's on your state education boards and test the saying, "never let academics decide policy."