The cult of positive thinking comes for academe

Barbara Ehrenreich warned us this would end badly

Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Toronto Star.

Last July, while living in a studio apartment in Prague, I began reading Václav Havel’s Disturbing the Peace. Line after line from Havel jolted me with familiarity, only I had never lived under Communist rule — I had worked in higher education for sixteen years. The result was “Academe Is Suffering from Foreign …