Dr. J. Budziszewski
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they don't have to go into details.
Everybody understands.
They don't have to talk about tampon dispensers in boys' bathrooms.
It's obvious.
There are so many different lunacies.
I talk about 30 of them in there.
Do you have tampon dispensers at your university?
We do not have tampons.
Which is fine.
But there are a lot of people who would like to have tampon dispensers at my university.
How have you survived?
Do you have tenure?
I do have tenure.
Yes.
And I wonder sometimes whether I would have gotten tenure if I had been converted.
If I'm a revert, I'd abandoned Christian faith and came back to it.
If it had been more widely known that I had because I was a nihilist when I was hired.
You know, there's no objective discernible difference between good and evil, and we're not responsible for our actions anyway, said I. Give him a job teaching the young, you know?
And then God pulls me back into sanity and into the faith.
And, you know, then it became a more questionable thing for me.