There's An Actual Ideological And Epistemic Crackup Happening On The Left And It Can't Be Bad-Faithed Away

It's easier to caricature all this, but it won't get us anywhere

Yesterday Harper’s published a letter defending the values of free speech and open inquiry. I was very pleased to put my name on it, alongside those of some of my writer-friends like Katie Herzog (also a podcast-friend, of course), Kat Rosenfield, and Phoebe Maltz Bovy. Many of the names were far bigger than ours: We’re talking Noam Chomsky, Garry Kaspa…