I don't understand this thread. The "history of capitalism" stuff is hotly disputed inside academia. People didn't want to join in public shovel fight because Wilentz & co. had framed debate in gate-keeping polarizing way that could be easily be exploited by right (as it was). https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1377649894803054597 …
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I posted this in the other thread but I think that’s a broader problem. I remember a professor complaining that just by trying to write a mass-market book on his work he had lost standing in academia. Academics are discouraged from taking their expertise to the broader public.
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I don’t think it’s unique to topics of race or whatever but I’m sure that amplifies it. And plenty of progressives contribute to the problem. (The right is far worse obviously.) Maybe that’s actually a smart strategic trade off by lefty activists but it’s real.
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The Tucker superpower! Anything that the right touches, immediately becomes verboten. Tucker should start championing the infrastructure bill continuously in his program. Wonder what it will do to progressive mindset.
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Right!? And he should say it will help "preserve our suburbs" or something like that
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“I, a professor, better not publicly share my scholarly expertise because a portion of it might get used by the right” is a galaxy brain take on the purpose of academia
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isn't that fancy way of describing simple cowardice?
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