What started in 2017 was a real eye opener. It was part and parcel of a series of events, continuing to this day, revelatory of a decline of civility in U.S. academic institutions, law, and other fields. A large part was driven by Trump derangement syndrome. But it’s more than that. It’s really quite shocking when academics who have preached civility in front of large audiences depart, in their own publications, from the standards they have regularly espoused elsewhere. But that is where we are. This behavior is omnipresent among the woke left. But it’s not just there. Among right-of-center legal academics, you will find some who will not give the time of day to other academics who have departed, in even the most minor way, from what the former believe to be acceptable legal orthodoxy. It is miserable, mean-spirited fanaticism borne of misplaced self-pity.
Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘The Academic Left and Right,’ New Reform Club (June 30, 2025, 14:53 PM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-academic-left-and-right.html>;
The above is an excerpt from: R. Yitzchok Frankfurter, ‘Going Mainstream: How a Little-Known Orthodox Jewish Law Professor in Ireland Became a Prominent Legal Voice in the Trump Era,’ (Issue 720) Ami Magazine, May 28, 2025 / 1 Sivan 5785, at 180–203 (interviewing Tillman), <https://amimagazine.org/2025/05/27/going-mainstream/>, <https://ssrn.com/abstract=5282511>.
