INDOCTRINATION, VIRTUE SIGNALLING, AND TRANSPARENT CURRYING OF FAVOR.

Back in the day, Glenn Loury was a pretty good researcher in inter alia technology diffusion.

He's also long been a man of independent mind, not to be captive to any one world view.

Thus, when he got a rather silly letter from the administration of oh-so-trendy Brown University, one that reads like what you'd expect from anywhere else, he responded.  "I wondered why such a proclamation was necessary. Either it affirmed platitudes to which we can all subscribe, or, more menacingly, it asserted controversial and arguable positions as though they were axiomatic certainties. It trafficked in the social-justice warriors’ pedantic language and sophomoric nostrums."

But that, dear reader, wasn't the best part.  This was.  "I deeply resented the letter. First of all, what makes an administrator (even a highly paid one, with an exalted title) a 'leader' of this university? We, the faculty, are the only 'leaders' worthy of mention when it comes to the realm of ideas. Who cares what some paper-pushing apparatchik thinks?"

Indeed so, although it's on the faculty to take that leadership back.