The article highlights how Henry VIII defused monastic resistance by pensioning monks as he liquidated their houses. Applied to today, it suggests large buyouts or pensions could be used to neutralize tenured faculty opposition during university downsizing or restructuring in an AI era.
— It offers a concrete, politically tractable tactic for higher‑ed reform that shifts debate from pure culture war to mechanism design.
2025.10.07
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Cromwell’s visitations and the First Suppression Act pensioned monks while dissolving lower‑income houses and selling their lands and treasures.
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