Comment of the Day: Graydon: Jacob Levy: I don’t think there’s anything—anything—on which I’ve gotten so much disbelief-that-becomes-near-anger as when I contradict the post-2014 Fox narrative about campus life...: "I think the shorter version is 'participants in authoritarian systems seek to destroy any alternative source of authority'...
...I generally agree with what you write about process, but the real problem is that the academy is an alternative source of authority because it gets to designate facts. Authoritarians want you to do what you're told, and rely on belief; the entire concept of facts is antithetical to an authoritarian. So thereby the academy is antithetical to an authoritarian....
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