Teaching Resentment

Bruce Gatenby
5 min readFeb 23, 2021

On the tyrannomania of the new cultural “elite.”

Photo by Huang Yingone on Unsplash

One of the major benefits of leaving academia is being able to enjoy literature again. Instead of “interrogating” texts for crimes against [fill in your bias blank] in the name of social justice or critical race theory, I can once again just read books for enjoyment and occasional enlightenment.

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Bruce Gatenby

London based writer and X Professor. Writing. Ph.D. U of Arizona.