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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will just say that I have lots of nuanced conversations behind closed doors that I would not have in public.

Public conversation is pretty toxic. There are some people who are still engaging in nuance in public, though - Yglesias and Josh Barro are two who come to mind. I'm sure there are many more, too, but they are the first I thought of. I enjoy Ben Dreyfus on Twitter.[/quote]

But if you publicly state that you agree with these guys - is to going to cause ire?
I’ve recently discovered Mearsheimer and I know full well I can’t mention his name to just anyone, even though he is a bona fide scholar. [/quote]

I don't know who Mersheimer is - will look him up.

My spouse engages in a lot of this stuff publicly. He is on the public intellectual side of things and also really does not care what other people think. I don't really have any reason in my life to stand with Yglesias or anything - I will give a like on Twitter to one of them, and yeah sometimes I do worry that someone is going to dig up my like history and make a thing of it. But I have no reason to say in public what I am thinking about most of this stuff. My field - where I have a minor public profile - is not related to what's happening in Israel, and all the very very very complicated thoughts I am having about all of it.[/quote]

Thank you for writing all this. I think you are right - the most dangerous repercussions I can face will probably come from, like, the local moms :) if I post anything.
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