Cute how many people on this website still expect the academic market to be organized according to some kind of meritocracy. I guess sometimes the brightest scholars are at the top places. But much more often it's about pedigree. It's very often about the Q Skinners of the world saying this and that person should control this department.
It's like half the people on this website never studied politics before. As if academic job markets are some kind of perfect system for organizing talent
Yah but we’re the ones that yammer about justice privilege etc