Academia as a People's Civil Service: Or, What We've Done to Knowledge

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Today’s essay is about what we’ve done to inquiry, to education, to knowledge work itself. It’s ostensibly about academia, but if you’re a teacher, a consultant, a researcher, someone who works with ideas and people and problems, I think you’ll recognize what I’m describing. We’ve all learned to be very good at knowi…