My new article in The Critic , considering the Ally Louks affair, wilful use of jargon, and the right of those who subsidise academic research through their taxes to comment on it. Wouldn’t have been possible without the earlier writing from Ella Dorn 唐棠 thecritic.co.uk/we-need-higher…

People referenced in this: Ella Dorn 唐棠 Alexandra Wilson Helen Pluckrose is away until February , Alan Sokal, Yuan Yi Zhu , Noam Chomsky, Kenneth Hudson, Michael Billig, Kathleen Stock , nigel biggar thecritic.co.uk/we-need-higher…

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It's been a 10+ year goal of mine to get into Private Eye's Pseuds Corner (before I even started writing), but I don't buy every issue - if any of my stuff ends up there, PLEASE let me know!

According to Ella Dorn 唐棠 , the hostility to Louk’s abstract is because it ‘reveals this to be about “a series of sociopolitical truisms that are already the institutional status quo, and have been for over forty years”.’ I strongly agree. The Critic thecritic.co.uk/we-need-higher…

Am heartbroken that this ridiculous-sounding silent German serial doesn't seem to have survived. Can everyone check their attics please en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mistr…