Your explanation of political reason has been one of the most helpful strands since I began reading around why the political/moral climate feels so off. Please keep up the good work.
Nothing I write here would really be publishable even if properly written up with footnotes etc. in an academic journal. Viewpoint homogeneity is pretty monolithic, and getting worse among young academics.
Sincere congratulations. I only have two paid Substack subscriptions: yours and Racket (Matt Taibbi). No joke, yours is among the best political writing out there and you deserve every bit of your success. Please keep it coming!
Well deserved given your thought provoking content that’s helped me better understand our world. Sorry to hear your career has been harmed and that even my alma mater has succumb to the new authoritarianism. It was vibrant in the early 80s with much debate and exposure to a range of views, some of which I still share today! Cheers 😉
Omedetou gozaimasu! may you earn enough that you no longer need to care about the feelings and delicate sensibilities of your academic colleagues
I think we’re a way off that but I’ll give it my best try!
Your explanation of political reason has been one of the most helpful strands since I began reading around why the political/moral climate feels so off. Please keep up the good work.
Thanks, Mike.
Congratulations, well deserved! Your excellent work needs to be read far and wide.
Thanks!
Well done and thank you for sharing some of your previous articles. I never fail to appreciate your writing.
Thanks!
Thank you for the suggested reading list - I shall devour over the next few days!
I was wondering how the general tenor of views expressed sat within the modern academic milieu….
Nothing I write here would really be publishable even if properly written up with footnotes etc. in an academic journal. Viewpoint homogeneity is pretty monolithic, and getting worse among young academics.
Since my father, bless him, gave me a finger of Laphroiag at the age of 14 (1965), the Islay malts are for me the finest.
Anything but unhinged, David. I thank you for your work and unstinting opposition to the shit storm enveloping us.
Thanks Jeremy!
You and Dan Jupp my got to first reads!
Richly deserved - I signed up as paid via my personal account!
Thanks very much!
Congratulations and thank you.
Thanks!
Sincere congratulations. I only have two paid Substack subscriptions: yours and Racket (Matt Taibbi). No joke, yours is among the best political writing out there and you deserve every bit of your success. Please keep it coming!
PS I am a huge Matt Taibbi fan. Not just a great journalist but one of the last great journalists who is also a great prose stylist.
High praise - thanks very much for your support!
"Two days ago, News from Uncibal became a Substack 'bestseller’ - the first step, no doubt, towards Stephen King-like levels of wealth and fame."
Congratulations ! But don't give up the day job ;)
Well not yet anyway, but if your brilliant insights and common sense opinions are affecting it - maybe....
Thanks Roger!
Your health, sir!
Cheers!
Congrats David. I'm not surprised though, your essays are some of the most cogent and best argued out there. Onward and upward!
Well deserved given your thought provoking content that’s helped me better understand our world. Sorry to hear your career has been harmed and that even my alma mater has succumb to the new authoritarianism. It was vibrant in the early 80s with much debate and exposure to a range of views, some of which I still share today! Cheers 😉