Certainly, there are trials and tribulations to the academic career, particularly during the end-of-semester hell many professors are now suffering. But there are perks, too, including the “ten benefits that emanate from the promotion to full professor” enumerated by Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. (Tip of the hat to the Atlantic’s Megan McArdle.)
Free marketers want the government off business's back, notes a University of California sociologist, but they may not realize how much of the spine is government funded.