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Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus. This is hell with the school year getting underway in many places across the United States

with fresh optimistic minds excited about what they will learn in the upcoming year

with so many proud parents sharing images of their high school

graduates moving on to college and into the dorms. It's a good time to remind

everyone involved that if a future a life choice to pursue a career in academia is being considered, you may want to re-examine that choice as academia is likely not what you think it is.

And if you are the romantic type like I am that

sees academia as a life-loving books reading and writing teaching and becoming a

mentor according to today's guest you are writing, teaching, and becoming a mentor.

According to today's guest, you are sadly mistaken in a few minutes.

We will have the return of award-winning essayist and critic

William De Resilitz, who will be on to discuss his essay, Why I Left Academia, since you're wondering,

which appears in his new collection The End of Solitude selected essays on culture and society.

Bill is a recipient of the Height Prize in the Humanities,

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