"No ideas and the ability to express them: that's a journalist," said Karl Kraus. But as a corollary: "No ability to discern good from bad ideas, and the ability to repeat the worst ones: that's a journalist too." And since journalists always enjoy self-hating academics, it is predictable that one has picked up and is now regurgitating Mark Taylor's nonsense.
Of course, Professor Taylor is clearly on a jihad, and judging from the second-to-last paragraph, it appears we have gotten his attention.
(Thanks to at least a dozen different readers who sent me links to these items.)
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