I’m pretty conservative politically and especially in what concerns the economy but whenever I find myself among a group of colleagues from my university I feel like the most subversive commie pinko radical anybody can be.
For instance, during the book club meeting, I happened to be wearing my ring with Che Guevara’s portrait (because I had been teaching my class on Cuba on that day and wanted to show the ring to my students) and I also ended up saying that the author of the book we are reading is a tenured professor at Harvard which means that she has high personal stakes in proving that the system works. To me, that’s the most boring platitude anybody can say, but in the book club this was like I’d dropped a bomb. People were fascinated with the idea but terrified of it. They started declaiming loudly and insistently that, “What if she has tenure at Harvard, she is still one of us.”
This, of course, awakened the contrarian in me, and things became quite heated.
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