“As one person I spoke to said to me, ‘Is it worth saving the jobs of the one hundred conservative in order to make sure we keep the one hundred thousand liberals?’ I think the [tenure] system needs to be scrapped. I realize that there will be conservative academics who may be hurt in that process, but at this point I think it is so skewed that it is impossible to justify keeping the system as it is,” says Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get The College Education You Pay For.