I'm too busy to comment on this at length...

but the NYT has a roundtable on tenure. Pretty much the same old lines. With the exception of Kezar (who does, at least, ask some good, tough questions), no one adds anything original or insightful to the discussion, but there is, I suppose, some value in seeing where the debate has come to a dead stop.

• At Stake: Freedom and Learning

  Cary Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Unsustainable and Indefensible

  Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University

• No Tenure, No Nothing

  Adrianna Kezar, University of Southern California

• Reducing Intellectual Diversity

  Richard Vedder, economist, Ohio University

• How to Start Over

  Cathy A. Trower, Harvard School of Education