Two funny reactions to last week's post.
First, from a philosopher in the UK: "The dumb outbursts you quoted in your post establish that not all imbalances of power are injustices. Some people really should be powerless!"
Second, a somewhat longer response from a political theorist in the US:
Although I ended up in Political Science, I used your Gourmet when looking at grad schools back in 2001. I've been a regular reader of your blog since 2003. We are very much on different sides of many issues (I am a rather traditional Catholic, trained as a Straussian, etc.) Nonetheless, I have always found you to be an enlightening voice of sanity and have been very grateful for your many contributions. (When I teach Nietzsche, I always refer my students to your book. And I agree with you about Lampert's reading of Nietzsche.)
I say all this because I read your post about the attacks on you in Twitter and I was just shocked, though not surprised. What a bunch of idiotic condescending assholes!
So, even though I am not in your field, and even though we probably disagree about more than we agree about, I wanted to thank you for the many years of service that you've given to academia, not only as a scholar but as public voice of reason (though not a voice of "public reason!"). I know you are more than capable of holding your own against these canailles (as Nietzsche would probably have called them), but damn it it's time for those of us who have profited from your labors to at least thank you for it. So thank you!
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