the "assum[ption] that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason" is not a premise of this article. It has a thesis--that people with

the "assum[ption] that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason" is not a premise of this article. It has a thesis--that people with a range of political beliefs distrust academia more than they have in the past because academia has become more dishonest--and then gives a bunch of examples of the dishonesty. Surely it goes without saying that people may have other reasons to distrust academia! Maybe you distrust academia now because you were promised a lavish sinecure in exchange for how diverse you will look on a glossy brochure but you lost it because racists found duplicative language in your otherwise stellar academic work.