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New Gurus: 5. Gazing into the Abyss

Influenced

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How Can I Be Part of the Intellectual Dark Web?

In 2018, the intellectual dark web was anointed as the hot new thing by the impeccably liberal New York Times. Alice Drager had written a provocative book about the hounding of controversial academics and took their call. The idea of being targets of persecution, modern-day Galileo's, was key to the appeal of the IDW. But if Alice didn't want anything to do with the Intellectual Dark Web, plenty of people were happy to take her spot.

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