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Tyler Austin Harper, a former tenure-track professor in environmental studies at Bates College who is now a staff writer at The Atlantic, is one of the most reliably interesting — and in some precincts, polarizing — observers of academic politics. A special interest: the bespoke monoculture he saw engulfing places like Bates, where administrators eager to appease the activist wing of their campuses institutionalized a highly moralized version of progressive politics, often to the detriment of academic freedom and other values integral to higher learning.
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