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The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies by Robert Boyers

bookanonjeff's review against another edition

5.0

Worthy Conversation. Boyers is by his own admission a liberal academic. In that, he means both that he genuinely favors much of the current progressive political agenda, but also the more classical sense of liberalism at least in regards to free and open speech. This discussion is thus from that point of view, critiquing the more "hard core" progressives for their lack of civility and commitment to free speech while holding fast to his commitments to ideas such as anthropogenic climate change, racial justice, and other tropes of the left. Boyers is very clearly of the old and dying breed that can disagree with someone while still genuinely respecting them, and this approach is abundantly evident throughout this text. Very much recommended, though likely a fair degree academic for many.