It sure would show some intellectual consistency if the high profile signatories of the Harpers letter took the driver’s seat in defending their very junior colleagues like @KempoJesse when they are attacked by “expected” right wing mobs & the Univ admins that respond to them.

And if those signatories in elite circles of publishing, journalism, and academe have no idea what is happening to @KempoJesse right now then that too tells us something about which causes, debates, Institutions, & colleagues the letter purports to care about and protect.

I so admire my sr colleagues like @TenuredRadical @PainterNell @FukuyamaFrancis @scaliger @ZephyrTeachout @mattyglesias @Dahlialithwick & hope they read what’s happening to @KempoJesse at Auburn & activate the resources of that Harpers network in support of debate & free society.

Otherwise the fight against organized right wing mobs (and the cowardice of university PR officers & their decanal enablers) is left up to grad students, adjuncts, & faculty who lack access to far reaching platforms like NYT, intellectual mags, Vox, boards of major institutions.