It's so sad that the Brits have had to resort to importing the phrase "Free Speech Tsar" when they have an essentially infinite number of freely-adaptable titles to hand domestically. The Duke of Discourse. Warden of All Chit-Chat. Equerry of Arguments. Gold Stick To The Point. Keeper of the King's Premises. The Earl of Axiom. The Wheedle Beadle. The Chief Constable Counterexample. The Postillion of Positing. The Justiciar of Just One More Thing. The Marquess of My Question is More of a Comment.

As a rule, you shouldn't put philosophers in charge of anything. But if you insist, then it's best to give them a preposterous job title. I'm not the Free Speech Tsar, I'm just an Absentee Free Speech Tax Farmer

Getting caught up on the wonderful world of NYT opinion pieces. Apparently you can get written up in the national newspapers now for having your article get dinged by PNAS. lol and what an article. Not what you'd call the most promising of openings.

This article is so funny. The argument is "We have these Evidence-Based peer-teaching methods that are way better than a bad old 'transmission' model but they don't work because you morons don't follow our instructions, but pick it up from peers instead."

chronicle.com/article/changi… "The old model is bad and terrible; we know this for sure; we have this fabulous new evidence-based and totally real and excellent method to replace it. Sadly however we seem unable to convey it in any sort of reliable manner. This is your fault. Here is an analogy to cooking."