Intellectual movements police themselves through veiled threats of exit

Evidence

Stigler adopted an earnest and collegial tone, expressing “embarassment [sic] and distaste” for the society’s quarrels concerning “personal manners, which a society of scholars and gentlemen should not even have to consider.” He then presented an incongruous ultimatum: “if Roepke does not resign by February 1, 1962, I shall submit my resignation from the Society.” — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 348

Categorization

• SHARE: The incongruous ultimatum — threatening his own resignation unless Röpke resigned — is the kind of petty-insider detail a specific MPS historian would enjoy.
• XREF: connects to: Left movements police their own borders and shrink their ranks — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 410

Broader Connections

• Left movements police their own borders and shrink their ranks #complicates (0.82) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 410