When the FBI learned of the extent to which James “Whitey” Bulger had subverted their Boston Field Office, their response was to clean it out, replacing absolutely everyone in it. Even those who hadn’t done anything wrong were given the choice of transferring to a different job with the Bureau or finding another line of […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the National Association of Scholars on January 14, 2024, and is crossposted here with permission. Oftentimes, those concerned with the state of higher education get wrapped up—rightly so—in bringing awareness to the loss of rigor, excellence, and pursuit of merit in academia. However, there is another facet of higher education […]
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