I'll link to his piece anyway, but I must warn my readers that Prof. Davis Kedrosky is playing dirty pool. I've done Kedrosky the grace not just to spell his name correctly but to link the original.
These are graces which Kedrosky did not afford to Jeff[rey] Fynn-Paul, whose essay I'd found two years ago. This essay and its upcoming book Not Stolen, Kedrosky does not link; instead footnoting This book is actively repellent, so you’ll have to find it yourself if you (for some reason) feel the need to read it.
Worse: Kedrosky misspells him "Jeffrey Flynn-Paul". This makes difficult to search the book in any engine, especially in somewhat-bad ones like Brave's or outright politicised-ones like DuckDuckGo.
Fynn-Paul in fact describes himself as a "centrist". Kedrosky portrays his-own-self as a fair man defending Diamond from critics who happen to be on the Left. These critics include Restall (moderately) and we could add Covey. But being a "centrist" in academia today is a dogwhistle apparently.
So Kedrosky throws F-P, to his Right, under the stone wheel. At least Kedrosky, the inethical one, has alerted us all that his own books are to be avoided. So, there's that.
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