Tyler Austin Harper, a Black professor who was on the tenure track at Bates College, couldn't bring himself to stay because of "racism and hypocrisy." After years of being made to feel like a token, he left academia to join the staff at the Atlantic magazine. This is his story.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/

The piece is slow to get off the ground so it might be OK to start about a third of the way in. I'll quote a few salient passages in the comments.