The pendulum has begun swinging in the other direction. Seems to follow roughly a seven year cycle. As the world shifts to a more conservative paradigm in the coming years, I hope that people are reminded that things will go too far before self-correcting and find solace in the fact that most people have settled in the middle.

Eh... academia has always been extremely political.

A hierarchical pyramid with a few tenure / dean positions at the top will do that, just as it does in corporations.

Is "Dissuading people from publishing takedowns of my paper" any different than "Switching KPIs post-hoc" after an executive's pet project failed to deliver the expected results?

interesting that you read “diversity” and compute “race.” that she is “she” is also a source of diversity.

diversity isn’t an inherently dirty word. it can be used as one, sure, but it doesn’t have to be.