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Peer Review

The sacred academic ritual where a handful of like-minded activists quietly approve each other’s work while ensuring dissenting ideas never see the light of day.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The official newsletter of the academic grift industry, where declining standards, skyrocketing tuition, and ideological capture are always framed as exciting progress.

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Academic Freedom

The university’s favorite slogan used as a shield for ideological conformity and a weapon against dissent.

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Tenure

The golden handcuffs that protect professors from reality, market forces, and the terrifying concept of being held accountable.

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Student Loan Debt

The debt that grows faster than your career prospects and outlives most marriages.

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American Association of University Professors

The organization that turned “tenure” into lifetime employment protection for ideological enforcers and professional activists.

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Geography

The science of location that proves proximity to water still beats proximity to ideology every time.

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UC-Berkeley

An overhyped Hispanic-serving institution for the overachieving asians and privileged white kids

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Ph.D.

Academic degree awarded to people who has learned more and more about less and less so that eventually they know everything about nothing at all.

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Department of Education

The federal bureaucracy that proved you can spend infinite money on education and still graduate students who can’t read their own diplomas.

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March Madness

The annual ritual where college kids who can’t legally drink become national heroes for two weeks while everyone else loses money on brackets.

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Aaron Kheriaty

Professor of Psychiatry and the director of Ethics program at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine who is fired by the institution for refusing the vaccine mandate.

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