A couple of days ago, I wrote a short blog post about the slow decay of tenure. It wasn’t a pro or con piece on the merits of tenure. I was mostly sad that tenure was going to disappear without a proper intellectual debate. Cost cutting hiring decisions are driving this bus, and I don’t really like that bus.

The academic bloggers are up in arms about an article in the Chronicle by Kevin Carey that argues against tenure using the standard critiques, but managed to open up the tense relationship between adjuncts and tenure faculty. I found these two blog posts rather shocking.

UPDATE: I’m still catching up on all the academic blogger blow ups over the holidays. Wow. So, so, so glad to be several steps removed. Check out the whoopla here.