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Academic Journal Rejects Pro-Life Article When They Find Out the Author is a White Male legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/academ…

Maistre’s advice on reading the ancients:

1. Not to believe they were oracles, for they said some very stupid things.

2. Not to reject brusquely their observations under the pretext that they conflict with some of our current ideas.

As I said just a couple weeks ago, you’re watching the defense of diversity statements become an increasingly low status activity, and so fewer and fewer academics will defend them.

Makes you wonder what else they currently defend simply because that’s where the status is.

I’ve never understood the sheer confidence of libertarians.

If I were advocating a radically new and untried way of organizing all of global social and political life, I hope I’d do so with a heaping dose of epistemic modesty. But that’s rare.

Same goes for Marxists btw.

Dissident academics will understand the freedom of thought and liberation from cultural mediocrity felt by de Maistre.

James Fitzjames Stephen on JS Mill, 1872:

“Mill seems to me to be one of those people whose logical and thinking power is quite out of all proportion to his seeing power…His whole concept of human nature appears to me to be a sort of unattractive romance…”

More on the bioethics journal that let an online mob overrule the peer review process and its editor who cited the author’s race and sex as a reason to reject a paper that had already been accepted.

It’s true. 🤡