STEVE KOGAN writes in response to this post about the feminist anthropologist Ellen Lewin:

In the second volume of her journals, Hope Abandoned, Nadezhda Mandelstam writes, “One of the most brilliant men in the history of mankind once said that as soon as thought dries up, it is replaced by words. A word is too easily transformed from a meaningful sign into a mere signal, and a group of words into an empty formula, bereft even of the sense such things have in magic. We begin to exchange set phrases, not noticing that all living meaning has gone from them. Poor, trembling creatures – we don’t know what meaning is; it has vanished from a world in which there is no room any more for the Logos. It will return only if and when people come to their senses and recall that man must answer for everything, particularly for his own soul.” How pitiful by comparison is the “academic BS” that Tom Bertonneau so knowingly describes in the course of his comment, how paltry, careerist, and bereft of “all living meaning,” which our academic elites have attempted to suppress and destroy for almost half a century.

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