Ilya Somin (George Mason), libertarian true believer, thinks regular Republican Rick Hills (NYU) has "a good critique" of my views on tenure. Except Rick mostly doesn't discuss my views on tenure, as I pointed out in the comments, though Rick makes up some views he ascribes to me. (Commenters on Rick's thread then make the points I made originally, which is even funnier.) Somin says: "Some of the exchange between Hills and Leiter has do with possible conflicts of interest in the debate. For example, Leiter attacks Columbia professor Mark Taylor for criticizing tenure when he is about to retire and no longer needs its protection." But Leiter never attacked Taylor for this reason, since it would be silly. (Read what I wrote.)
Another triumph for rational dialogue in Cyberspace!
CORRECTIONS THAT AREN'T QUITE CORRECTIONS: Professor Somin updates his post in order to describe as "my statement" someone else's statement (really a fragment of a sentence in a lengthy quotation that had nothing to do with Professor Somin's misattribution of a view about conflicts of interest to me). But I am grateful that he acknowledged the 'misinterpretation.'
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