What are the practical effects of these changes? Are they renaming buildings? Or throwing out Newton and Einstein?

It's worth noting that if not for previous generations' efforts in making the academy more open and welcoming to marginalized individuals the author of this piece might still have been employed in his previous job.

(Lawrence Krauss got fired in 2019 for sexual harassment)

My heart goes out to fellow professors there, and everywhere. It's like watching a city being bombed. The devastation of universities across the Anglophone world, in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, is crushing.

It's not just the long march of lunatic "leftist" ideas, it's also financialisation, professional management, technological dehumanisation, crippling debt and plummeting mental health of students.

Everything Ben Ginsberg wrote in "Fall of the faculty" and Prof. Wendy Brown said about globalisation and education has come to pass. The attacks on universities are sustained and rabid, and they come from every corner of the political and intellectual spectrum, from inside and outside universities, from political idealogues, industry, the media, fringe groups, and populist disdain.

No enemy action could have achieved what we have done to ourselves.