I pursued a Ph.D. as part of my dream to teach at the university level. But it wasn’t until after I completed my doctorate in political science that I was taught the toughest lesson of modern academia: The politics matters more than the science.
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The old maxim for getting a job in academia was “publish or perish,” meaning what mattered most was your scientific productivity. Today’s maxim is, apparently, “parrot or perish,” a paradigm in which regurgitating preferred political opinions can mean the difference between employment and excommunication.
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