Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at the MLA – The Chronicle of Higher Education

by failing to communicate themselves to a wider world and thereby leaving a vacuum in the public discourse around what they did and why it mattered, which their enemies eagerly filled — seemed a question infinitely debatable.
— Read on www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190510-academes-extinction-event

Precisely.