The city of LA is still sweeping unhoused people in the middle of this unprecedented crisis. Instead of bringing folks on the streets inside, the city is destroying what little they have & threatening them with arrest.
I actually feel sorry for all these social science, anthropology, history... academics. What a useless existence when there is absolutely zero impact of your work on the present.
The universities that claim to be bastions of free thought, critical thinking, learning from history.