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My heart goes out to fellow professors there, and everywhere. It's like watching a city being bombed. The devastation of universities across the Anglophone world, in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, is crushing.

It's not just the long march of lunatic "leftist" ideas, it's also financialisation, professional management, technological dehumanisation, crippling debt and plummeting mental health of students.

Everything Ben Ginsberg wrote in "Fall of the faculty" and Prof. Wendy Brown said about globalisation and education has come to pass. The attacks on universities are sustained and rabid, and they come from every corner of the political and intellectual spectrum, from inside and outside universities, from political idealogues, industry, the media, fringe groups, and populist disdain.

No enemy action could have achieved what we have done to ourselves.