If you don't know what this is about, look up Dr. Christakis online and see the abuse he and his wife had to take at Yale last year, all of it over Halloween costumes. Being yelled at and attacked in vulgar terms by a privileged kid from Fairfield County would be, I think, the nadir of one's experience in the Ivy League.In which a philosopher (not a former dictator, even), talking about ideas must be accompanied by a police detail onto a campus.... https://t.co/cLLFq5z1DW— Nicholas Christakis (@NAChristakis) October 5, 2016
Also, Dr. Sommers receives death threats because, as a philosopher, she prefers that her ideas be built around facts rather than transient feelings.
Why do I offer this? Because The Episcopal Church runs about ten years behind academia, and this is our future. Well, should there be an Episcopal Church in ten years.