This essay first appeared on Merion West under the title If the Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back. I’m reposting it here (slightly edited) for my subscribers. It is common when discussing the Great Epistemic Swindle or broader questions about the capture of our institutions (including academia) by the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) perspective for people to say, “Don’t worry. The pendulum will swing back.” The implication is that culture and politics can be thought of as the bob of a pendulum swinging back and forth mechanically between the political left and the right, and that, at the moment, we are simply at the leftward amplitude of such a process.
The Pendulum and The Ratchet
The Pendulum and The Ratchet
The Pendulum and The Ratchet
This essay first appeared on Merion West under the title If the Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back. I’m reposting it here (slightly edited) for my subscribers. It is common when discussing the Great Epistemic Swindle or broader questions about the capture of our institutions (including academia) by the Critical Social Justice (CSJ) perspective for people to say, “Don’t worry. The pendulum will swing back.” The implication is that culture and politics can be thought of as the bob of a pendulum swinging back and forth mechanically between the political left and the right, and that, at the moment, we are simply at the leftward amplitude of such a process.