[Tolik]

Edward Feser from Tech Central Station: The modern professoriate is best understood as a kind of priesthood, and its religion is Leftism. The first of a two-part series on universities and the Left.

You liked his previous article. Check this one out.

[Tolik]

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[katana]

Not to toot my own horn, but when my academic adviser in college suggested to me that I should pursue a PhD in history I replied that I didn't really want to join the academic "priesthood". That was thiry years ago.

I was referring more to the artificial environment and that academic pay scales amounted to a "vow of poverty", but Mr. Feser's point about marxist dogma being at the core of this modern "priesthood" is entirely correct. Their enforcement of this dogma is reminiscent of the Inquisition. The only difference is that the burnings at the stake are (so far) only symbolic.

[thedugal]

Thanks for the ping. Eagerly awaiting part dos.

[VOA]

The modern professoriate is best understood as a kind of priesthood, and its religion is Leftism.

Not suprising seeing how a lot of the university structure was birthed by church bodies.

Given the sad events with the recent church sex scandals, it's also notable
that some prominent universities, despite all their PC culture, vote down
codes of faculty conduct forbidding intimate relations with students.
(I know this happened maybe 5-10 years ago at the University of Virginia.)
Power, security and sex...pretty attractive qualities in an institution.
Even if the last one is only the obsessive goal of a few stray sectors of the community.