“ None of us in this seminar were able to mount any plausible arguments against Nozick, not because he’s correct, but because we had so little experience arguing against anything that far right.“

Author discovered a PhD thesis topic worth writing, perhaps without knowing it.

Overall, the article gives the impression the author correctly realized academia grinds up cogs in the wheel; but didn’t have the desire/ability to tilt against the system (eg not be a cog), and so quit. Fair enough, but not really worth reading about.