"Elevator-gate" update. The complaint was indeed frivolo...

"Elevator-gate" update. The complaint was indeed frivolous, making any commentary on it seem farcical as well. I still can't fathom how forcing someone to issue an apology he doesn't mean is supposed to be of use to anyone. https://quillette.com/2018/11/23/warning-telling-a-lame-joke-in-an-elevator-can-endanger-your-career/ #politics #academe #politcalcorrectness #kafkaesque #minds

Warning: Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator can Endanger Your Career - Quillette

I am a professor of international political theory at King’s College London and bye-fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. I am a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the International Studies Association (ISA). Several years back the ISA voted me the “distinguished scholar of the year.” Th...

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