I Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article (ugh).
One thing I’m not sure about: when academic ideas filter through other parts of society, they’re often stripped of most of their nuance. “Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.
I can say that I view this article as a general response to questions from conservatives circa 2005 about why the left was antagonistic to, I don’t know, racism. But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.
I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.
That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them, and perhaps “but it’s not a paradox” is something they could say on a Fox News panel, but I’m not sure it will otherwise inform their political strategy.