ANALYSIS
A lengthy exposé published this month in The Atlantic details how elite, liberal academics prioritize identity politics over meritocracy.
It is one of the most widely read higher-education critiques in recent memory, exposing how an elite private college operates through the eyes of a moderate black professor caught in its soft bigotry of low expectations and manufactured racial hysteria.
In “Why I Quit the Tenure Track,” Tyler Austin Harper painstakingly chronicles his hopeful arrival and frustrated departure from Bates College in Maine.
Harper holds nothing back, exposing how well-meaning white scholars and deans acted with condescending paternalism while fellow black scholars embraced the role of victim.
They elevated clearly underqualified faculty candidates because of their skin color. They demanded DEI be embedded in every single department while quashing employee attempts to form a union. They created an imaginary “attempted lynching” on campus while ignoring real problems black students faced, such as rising tuition costs and debt.
“In short, I came to see Bates College, self-styled beacon of progress, as an institution that was deeply, incorrigibly racist,” Harper wrote.
Much of Harper’s magazine-length tome focused on his effort to derail an attempt to require a Race, Power, Privilege, and Colonialism requirement, which called for every major to mandate at least one course related to “race, power, privilege, colonialism.” Students would have to take two...
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