HE FOUGHT THE IDIOTS AND THE IDIOTS WON: UA philosophy professor abruptly resigns as editor-in-chief of international philosophy journal over ethics dispute. Yale prof. Robin Dembroff is the person whose article he said shouldn’t have been accepted because it was unethical and unprofessional. But the paper advanced the trans community’s arguments and attacked a critic thereof, so it was published anyway. Then the subject of the attack wasn’t allowed to respond. Quoth Brian Leiter: “It’s fair to say that this whole episode will damage the reputation of the journal, beyond the loss of Professor Cohen.”

When taxpayers tire of funding of this sort of thing, we’ll be told it’s because of anti-intellectualism. But maybe it’s just that there’s not much actual intellectualism going on in higher education anymore.