"The book is extraordinarily important at precisely this moment when we need to think seriously about how dangerous our institutions' bylaws are and how devastating it is that we never found a way to give shared governance doctrinal heft or to enshrine faculty control over curricula into law. The path to Commonwealth University-the name Kaufman-Osborn gives to his imaginary member-incorporated institution of higher education-is murky, but we can and should start to renegotiate our governance rules."
Jennifer Ruth, Academe
"The Autocratic Academy does not just critique the present condition of higher education in the United States; through its stories of resistance and its vision of an alternative, it gives readers something else to want. These glimpses of flourishing show us what the health of the body politic might look like. We can begin our convalescence now."
Joel Alden Schlosser, American Political Thought