{"id":2181,"date":"2022-03-09T05:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T05:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/from-democrat-to-dissident\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:52:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T05:52:35","slug":"from-democrat-to-dissident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/from-democrat-to-dissident\/","title":{"rendered":"From Democrat to Dissident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e148a349200b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dissident Philosophers cover\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e148a349200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e148a349200b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Dissident Philosophers cover\" \/><\/a>This partially autobiographical essay is available <a href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/VALQDT\">here<\/a> at <em>PhilPapers<\/em> in pdf format.&#0160; It is a contribution to the collection, <em>Dissident Philosophers<\/em>, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. The essay recounts the experiences and reasons that led me to reject the Democratic Party and become a conservative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">On the same page you will find a link to <a class=\"discreet\" href=\"https:\/\/philpapers.org\/s\/Neven%20Sesardi%C4%87\" title=\"View other works by Neven Sesardi\u0107\"><span class=\"name\">Neven Sesardi\u0107<\/span><\/a>&#39;s contribution to the same volume.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Other contributors are advised to update their <em>PhilPapers<\/em> pages. The contributors are a distinguished lot. I am honored to be among them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It is important that we who have not succumbed to &#39;woke&#39; groupthink do our best to impede the decline, if not save, the universities. Failing that, we must build alternative institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This partially autobiographical essay is available here at PhilPapers in pdf format.&#0160; It is a contribution to the collection, Dissident Philosophers, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. The essay recounts the experiences and reasons that led me to reject the Democratic Party and become a conservative. On the same page you will find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/from-democrat-to-dissident\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Democrat to Dissident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,92,163,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-autobiographical","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}