I wish you luck. But I also invite you to ponder why, even if you find one, the right-wing opponents of tenure will outnumber them 100 to 1. Will you at least concur with that proposition, or do I really need to crawl through the muck of the anti-intellectual dinosaur crowd?
I absolutely concur. I am perfectly aware that the great majority of commentators who advocate the abolition of tenure are on the right -- all too often on the looney right. I'm sorry if I said anything to suggest otherwise. All I said is that I do know people who argue from the left against tenure. As in, I have some colleagues who have produced such arguments, from the left, around the departmental water cooler. My brief google searching certainly bears out your point: the vast majority (you're probably right, like 100 to 1) of the commentary against tenure comes from the right.
And if you do concur, how would you explain that phenomenon? Doesn't it seem counterintuitive that the left would be defending a perk of the allegedly wealthy and comfortable, while the extreme right would be knocking it down? Just look at some of the "arguments" in this very thread?
It is, indeed, counterintuitive. There's a kind of populist rightwingerism that mixes anti-intellectualism with an anti-establishmentism and with a "rugged individualism" that sees tenure as a privilege enjoyed by effete liberals unable to hack in the marketplace. (Not much of an analysis, I know.)
