Andrew Hofer

“universities need to make defending pluralism a top institutional priority, not an afterthought. If they do not, politicians—the world’s worst judges of scientific integrity—will try to do it for them.”
― Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

“On the back of the government scratching Wall Street’s back with its corrupt bailout, it was corporate America’s turn to return the favor. They did it by directly assuming the responsibilities of democratic government—especially the agendas of liberal politicians who might otherwise have harmfully regulated or penalized big business. Messy debates about racial inequality? Don’t worry: we’ve got it covered. New policies to fight climate change? We’ll take care of that too. Big business volunteered to take on the role of liberal government itself—crucially, on terms that were favorable to its own interests. That’s what woke capitalism is all about. It’s the hip new avatar of old-school crony capitalism.”
― Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

“we hear that the good things she does “were not widely visible.” But she continues to affect those around her in a way that is “incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Pamela Erens, Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life: Bookmarked

“The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you? I’m terrified of that world, and I don’t want to live in that world, and as a mixed-race person, I literally don’t exist in it.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow