Framing abolition as market regulation inverts conventional ideas about slavery and capitalism, particularly the assumption that free markets are fundamentally connected to other human freedoms.

When professors teach graduate students to disrespect the work that many of them must eventually consider, they're sabotaging their prospects. But it's worse than that. When we teach our students that professors' jobs — preferably research-intensive ones — are the only ones worth having, we're teaching them to be unhappy.