No loss, as academia has been a haven for safe thinking. Have a professor who espouses morally bankrupt ideas attempt to sell his thoughts on the street and see how he is able to feed himself. Oprah's Book Club. Your Mama's Last Supper. I guess the street will, sadly, support those ideas.
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