I always keep learning R_R_D.
Why is it academics and elites take such a condescending tone when imparting advice?
Do you think they even notice that trait in their character?
I’m afraid I only sound condescending when I’m peeved, and one of my pet peeves on FR is folks whose conservatism appears from their writings here to consist of a love for the free market that then makes them think everything should be run like a business.
Your quoting Robespierre just made it worse.
To me conservatism involves conserving not just the American Founding, but all of the goods of Christian civilization (and those inherited from Greek and Roman pagan civilization before that) on which the American Founding rested. And the university, as it grew organically from the middle ages onward, is one of those goods. Academic freedom was the original freedom of speech, when none existed elsewhere in Europe or indeed the world, and tenure is its guardian. Attacking it, whether with leftist speech codes or by remodeling the university as a business, seems to me to be an attack on all freedom, and the sort of unconservative behavior that amounts to moving the boundary markers of our ancestors.