Death Of The Dialectic

 Jacob Shell, Professor of Geography at Temple University about why he writes on X:

Some people are wondering why I write my thoughts about academia here (and sometimes on Substack or Compact), and not in the publishing organs of my discipline. That's because during the late 2010s when I tried to voice any objections or critiques to anything I saw happening in Geography, the only response I received from Geog's professional outlets and orgs was stone-cold silence. Not disagreement. Just silence. The death of dialectic. That's why I'm here. 

I don't know how Shell would categorize himself, but as a reader of his over the past three years, I believe he is an anti-woke liberal and definitely not a conservative, who like many in that category, now found themselves intellectually homeless.  He wants to restore sanity and liberal values to academia.

By death of the dialectic he is referring to the suppression of dissent.  What those who have seized control of the institutions recognize is that they can use their power to simply ignore dissent by refusing to platform opposing views.  There is no need to engage directly, instead they can construct strawman arguments to destroy at their leisure.