I get an increasing number of messages like the following (in this case from a recently tenured philosopher), which are a hopeful sign I think:
I have been meaning for a while now to write you to say that I owe you an apology for some disparaging things I've said about you in the past, and that I think you have been almost invariably correct in your recent posting at Leiter Reports about the state of the profession.
I let this thought sit for longer than I should have, but now that Justin Weinberg has described as "morally and practically complicated" the question of whether an internationally respected scholar should be prohibited from teaching required courses on the grounds that he has described as "evil" certain things that people do in their private lives, the message needs to go out.
This is madness, and it is making a joke of the profession I've given my life to. Thank you for being one of the few philosophers out there with the courage to tell it like it is. Your blog has become for me, and for many others I know, a haven of escape from the hand-wringing wokeness that is eating our profession up from the inside.
UPDATE: Here's something that's not complicated: Justin Weinberg (South Carolina) has been a consistent opponent of academic freedom and freedom of speech, from the case of Laura Kipnis at Northwestern to the case of John McAdams at Marquette. As the cyber-cheerleader for the New Infantilism, he consistently favors punishing people for speech offensive to the children, the law and principles be damned. The Finnis case is only the latest in that series.
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