The kiss of death …

… Scholars in Bondage - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It is unclear whether the grave problems with these books stemmed from the authors' wary job maneuvering in a depressed market or were imposed by an authoritarian academic apparatus of politically correct advisers and outside readers. But the result is a deplorable waste. What could and should have been enduring contributions to both scholarship and cultural criticism have been deeply damaged by the authors' rote recitation of theoretical clichés.

If anything could kill kink, it would be the academy.