I actually find this article interesting. Not really for the first order content (did you know a retiring scientist writing at Quillette thinks all this SJ stuff is a bit silly?) but for what I think it evinces. ...
quillette.com/2023/02/07/the…
quillette.com/2023/02/07/the…
... my take is that an *enormous* amount of intra-academic culture war stuff, especially on generational lines, comes from leftover and still strongly felt grudges from the late 80s-early 2000's Science Wars. I think academics who were around for that still feel it deeply...
... And since younger academics barely have it in their frame of reference at all it often leads to talking past each other. There were moves in this piece which are inexplicable if one doesn't know of the Science Wars and the sort of things that were bundled together then. ....
P.s. my only first order content complaint will be that I think people have a very odd idea of the Enlightenment. Whatever else it was for good or ill, it was a proselytising cultural moment. Reason had a mission, and one that soon plunged Europe into an emancipatory forever-war.
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