[pXMzR2A]

Good article by Eagleton but I do wonder very much if it would have made headlines on HN if the title was "the slow death of the university as a center of humane critique" and the HN readers knew of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Eagleton#Literary_Theory

[emodendroket]

Well the point seems to be that the university is becoming something quite unlikely it has traditionally been conceived.