By James C. Sherlock

Loren Lomasky,
Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy & Law. Courtesy UVa.
I read yesterday morning on BR “Tragedies in Charlottesville” by UVa professor Loren Lomasky, who wrote:
It is reasonable to judge that in either the longer or shorter version of the history of the university, no single individual has done it as grievous a harm as the man who now serves as its chief academic officer.
Among the few propositions on which Loren Lomasky and provost Ian Baucom agree is that the University of Virginia would be better off with exactly one of them gone.
Wow! Cage match!
I guess you could say that Dr. Lomasky has had enough.
He opposes, obviously strongly, Provost Baucom’s strange intervention into academics school-wide after the November shooting of three young men at the University.
We also suspect the fight might reflect the history between the two men. Baucom was Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences during most of Professor Lomasky’s tenure there.
Libertarians like Dr. Lomasky seek, in his case as a career, to minimize encroachments on and violations of individual liberties and to maximize personal autonomy and political freedom.
They are believers in personal agency and taking responsibility for ones actions. They insist on academic freedom.
Nice to see the professor, who advocates all of that, call out the University of Virginia leadership in the person of provost Ian Baucom, who emphatically does not advocate any of it.
Not a word about that story yet that I can find in the mainstream media that cover Virginia. Fair enough. Perhaps we will see it tomorrow.
Nothing in The Cavalier Daily yet, which does,however, offer a riveting story pressing for free menstrual products in the dorms.
But Professor Lomasky also called out the DEI bureaucracy at UVa in the strongest terms.
I have no doubt that they have opened a “case.” (Update. I understand that Prof. Lomasky has been the subject of at least three investigations by the EOCR division of DEI).
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