IS PROF. PHILIP KITCHER PEDDLING the philosophical equivalent of tainted meat? “What’s the most misaligned aspect of my analogy? It’s that the butcher would prefer to have untainted meat to sell. He’s not using meat as a vehicle for delivering e. coli.” Ouch.

Plus, from the comments: “Strangely enough, ‘progressivism’ was broadly associated with eugenics and racism and yet the only people who remember that are the people accused of being social darwinists.”