Safe space or shirking accountability? A new Journal of Controversial Ideas will allow academics to write under pseudonyms
- Written by Patrick Stokes, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
shutterstockIn the 1840s, a series of strange books started to appear in Copenhagen. The books were credited to outlandish pseudonyms: Victor Eremita (“victorious hermit”), Hilarious Bookbinder, Vigilius Haufniensis (“the watcher in the marketplace”), and more.
The author of these books was a theology graduate named Sø...





