[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some marketing/framing savvy pple figured out that the most effective way to build a fascist movement is to call it: antifascist.

Stiglitz understands everything about economics except for tail risks: like knowing everything about flight safety except for crashes.

If you want to study classical values such as courage or learn about stoicism, don’t necessarily look for classicists. One is never a career academic without a reason. Read the texts themselves: Seneca, Caesar, or Marcus Aurelius, when possible. Or read commentators on the classics who were doers themselves, such as Montaigne — people who at some point had some skin in the game, then retired to write books. Avoid the intermediary, when possible. Or fuhgetaboud the texts, just engage in acts of courage.