*Edit: I have sent apologies to the two academics who were originally named here as examples. Since my argument here rested on how requests for payments are deceptively framed, rather than monetization in principle, I thought it necessary to use actual quotes, but I now think that was unethical in itself. We don’t know their financial situations and usi…
Is It Unethical for Academics to Monetize Substack?
Paywalls and Hypocrisy, Public Intellectuals, and the Pursuit of Truth
