At the moment, for any at least conservative professor in the humanities, let alone a reactionary professor, the ways of proceeding are essentially threefold: firstly, you can pretend you are a progressive, buy into the paradigm of progressivism and only tell your closest circle of friends, or no one, your true political/scientific opinions; secondly, you can pretend to be apolitical, and simply make an effort to exclude and avoid the use of any of the current crackpot methodologies in your inquiries (in some circles, to forego mention of “gender” (i.e. sex) in an article or monograph is to welcome a swarm of criticism, even when such matters are either clearly unrelated to the topic at hand, e.g. geography of such and such a place under discussion, or where the only answer you could provide would be a reactionary one); thirdly, you could wait until you have tenure, and then begin using reactionary language. This is a brave choice, and I may even abstain from recommending it, considering the hounding that people who undergo such a procedure typically receive. Such an one may expect student newspapers to frequently write articles in affront to one’s integrity and honour, to have boycotts of one’s lectures and speaking events, to have occasional protests and threats to one’s safety, as well as a drop in invitations to conferences and events with the rest of the academic community, which, still being made up of people to whom dreams of being ’68ers are still relevant.

To Mr. Dampier, I would be interested in seeing more written on the place that he thinks the humanities does have. Precisely how did it create cohesion in an elite class in the past, and how can it do this in the future? This still remains unclear. In his latest post he stated that he believes the practical and abstract arts should be brought closer together, but this is also unclear. Does this mean, for instance, that those in the humanities should relate their work to natural sciences? Some examples would be of assistance.

However the cathedral doesn’t like competition, so I’ll make a prediction myself that this above anything else will be the single biggest reason why the cathedral will want to co-opt NRx for itself.

This sounds ridiculous now, but so was gay marriage only a decade ago, in the next decade the cathedral will adopt many NRx concepts. Not become NRx, rather adopt the same concepts and language to appear authentic, like it did with regular higher education. Maybe even make some concessions to HBD to appear even more authentic.