You gentlemen have performed an incalculable service to us all during a period--I'm talking about the last several years--when intellectual and ethical bravery was in very short supply. I've come to appreciate not just the space that the two of you hold down, but the moments when your views diverge, or surge with unexpected emotion. Th…
You gentlemen have performed an incalculable service to us all during a period--I'm talking about the last several years--when intellectual and ethical bravery was in very short supply. I've come to appreciate not just the space that the two of you hold down, but the moments when your views diverge, or surge with unexpected emotion. The dialogic space is cozy, sometimes, but then Dr. Loury steelmans a progressive claim--"Wait a minute, John. What would you say to somebody who argues that.....?" And John listens, volleys, thinks it through and occasionally revises on an as-needed basis. All the while, you're collectively modeling a kind of long-form inquiry that seems imperiled by the hot takes of social media and the cancel culture it feeds. I'm schooled in multiple ways every time you gentlemen get together, not least because you've been tag-teaming like this for a good long while and engaging deeply with earlier variants of these issues for even longer. So great that this recognition is happening now. Keep the faith!
You gentlemen have performed an incalculable service to us all during a period--I'm talking about the last several years--when intellectual and ethical bravery was in very short supply. I've come to appreciate not just the space that the two of you hold down, but the moments when your views diverge, or surge with unexpected emotion. The dialogic space is cozy, sometimes, but then Dr. Loury steelmans a progressive claim--"Wait a minute, John. What would you say to somebody who argues that.....?" And John listens, volleys, thinks it through and occasionally revises on an as-needed basis. All the while, you're collectively modeling a kind of long-form inquiry that seems imperiled by the hot takes of social media and the cancel culture it feeds. I'm schooled in multiple ways every time you gentlemen get together, not least because you've been tag-teaming like this for a good long while and engaging deeply with earlier variants of these issues for even longer. So great that this recognition is happening now. Keep the faith!