Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , [The consequences will be primarily intellectual or spiritual and will also follow the same patterns of religious hysterias. Wokeness is obscurantist, diminishing the minds of its adherents or victims by blocking out ideas and experiences that are considered a distraction from perfect piety.], Link , [More than that, he has spent the past few years telling people from the first wing, the classical liberals, that we are totally useless and just appeasers of the left. So putting him on the new school’s board of advisors is a rather conspicuous finger in the eye to many of us who would like to be cheering on this new venture. That is assuming that any of this even becomes an issue, because it is not at all clear that this new entity has the funding, the faculty, the buildings, or all the other things it will need to establish itself, and the announcements so far are very light on those details. We need new experiments and institutions for liberalism. They face high enough obstacles without also embarking on weird efforts to showcase their intellectual diversity by elevating opponents of intellectual diversity.], Link , [The “only thing on anyone’s mind now is redressing inequities,” Kormendy told me, adding that he supports that “honorable” aim. But science is not about social justice. It’s about the advancement of knowledge via the free exchange of ideas and the careful testing of results. Step by step, we are shutting down the very processes of open inquiry and the cultivation of excellence that have freed humanity from so much unnecessary suffering.]