The persecuting society

I've noticed lately a lot of "queer" news and reviews, this time in the classical circuit (for Islam, vide Bauer). To this end Jeremy Swist has reviewed Quentin Coldwater Broughall's book on Gore Vidal. Jason Colavito was hoping to publish what looks like the same book except about James Dean. In a holdover Jessica Wright has reviewed Sandra Boehringer's 2007 thesis about the female side of the phenomenon. Peter Sarris over in the Travaux-et-Mémoires "Mélanges" t. 26 expounds upon "sexual minorities" in Justinian's time, whose "persecuting society" didn't much hold with 'em.

Wright is certainly no bigot like Justinian, persecuting heresies - hey, just ask her. Wright complains Boehringer in 2007 wasn't queer enough. Silly Sandra, we don't accept lesbians anymore; it's all about transgenderism! Even mothers might not exist! Take the L, amirite? Maybe Boehringer's book could be salvaged by some sensitive revisions.

Off-topic, maybe, Thomas E. Strunk had some Very Important Lessons about the fall of republics which leaned hard into Trump and JANUARY SIX NEVER FORGET. I suppose Strunk and I fall on the same side of this one. Still: is Strunk even allowed to bring up @nt1f@ or BLM? Wright suggests not. Plenty delatores roam those ivied halls, and that's just in the "hard" sciences (cosmology admittedly, to the extent it counts).

Against the very idea that the academy might be hounding dissenters literally to death, @provisionalidea Rosen-Birch has contributed his own anthropology about "the Right" with the standard conclusion that they're not thinkers. This conclusion Rosen-Birch must know deep-down sounds like a self-satisfied assumption, so he delivers a textwall aiming to prove that hypothesis. Dutton and MacDonald might disagree but hey.

We may see some glimmers of can-we-at-least-talk-about-this through the enforced Narrative. Coyle Neal thought at least Strunk had gone a bit far. This may betray a Baptist perspective; but Bryn Mawr seems to allow it inasmuch as they published his review. Meanwhile Colavito hasn't got his own book through the publishers. This implies that supply for this stuff is outstripping demand, at least outsite academia. I admit the possibility Colavito simply hasn't made a lot of friends.

I further wonder how intellectually-curious any of these open-minded scholars are about contagion-theory.