Though I’m totally unsympathetic to the organization, I thought I’d announce that I’ll be giving a paper at the 2025 Heterodox Academy conference this June in Brooklyn. The conference runs June 23-25, and will be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. My talk is part of a three-person session at 8:30 am on the 24th called “The Skeptics’ Panel,” and is titled “Kalven’s Complicit Executioners: A Critique of the Kalven Committee Report.” There’s nothing particularly “skeptical” about my argument; it’s a straightforward rejection and critique of so-called “institutional neutrality.” I’ve laid out a version of the argument here, and will be blogging on related themes in the near future.

The conference features an all-star cast of think-alike academics clamoring for “viewpoint diversity” in the academy, among them Jonathan Haidt, John Tomasi, Michael Roth, Jerry Coyne, and many others. If you can find a bona fide anti-Zionist partisan of Palestine, an authentic anti-war radical, or a full-fledged anti-neutralist activist in this bunch (besides me), I’ll give you a big sloppy kiss on the mouth, whoever you are. But don’t get your hopes up.

The conference is called “Truth, Power, and Responsibility.” My own preferred title for it would be something like “Neutrality, Complicity, and Docility.” Thanks to the wonders of free speech, I can say things like this. And thanks to my mean spiritedness, I do.