I REMEMBER WHEN ACADEMIA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE VALUABLE BECAUSE IT FOSTERED MEASURED, CRITICAL THOUGHT: “As non-native speakers of English we are grateful to Steven Dean for pointing out to us that the initial title of this article (Breaking the Shackles of Tax Competition) could be understood as invoking the imagery of slavery.”

Though perhaps as non-native speakers of English, what they’re really saying is “the Anglosphere’s academic sector is so batshit crazy now that we aren’t taking any chances with a mass hysteria we don’t understand” — in which case I’d say “hit the nail on the head with that one.”