Great post on the bureaucratization of the modern academy and the outcome of the “culture wars” by English Prof Erin O’Connor — who in her inspired analysis seems (to me, at least) to be channeling Christina Hoff Sommers:

[…] bureaucracy is not at all politically neutral; it is, indeed, the engine of central planning, and as such is the far left’s organizational mode of choice. As in socialism, so in the left-wing academy: the more entrenched the ideology, the more impacted the system.

[…] In short, it’s not that the culture wars have evaporated […] but that they have been decisively won. Over the past couple of decades, the campus has effectively become what one scholar I know terms an ‘ideological fiefdom.’ Now the victors are busy administering it. Bureaucratic bloat is the predictable result.

Part 1 in a series.

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