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8 January 2022

9:00 AM

8 January 2022

9:00 AM

Of the making of many books, the Bible says, ‘there is no end’. It’s starting to feel a bit like that with the production of academic open letters.

These ghastly exercises in the ritual humiliation of errant scholars by their apparently blameless colleagues have been with us for rather less time than the wisdom of Solomon, but already they are feeling long in the tooth.

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