Here, almost a decade on from the defamatory harassment of her orchestrated by the “usual suspects” in academic philosophy (Alcoff, Trott, Winnubst, et al. [see] . We first wrote about this misconduct here, and quite a bit thereafter. An amusing bit from the interview:

Goldstein: Two hallmarks of the Hypatia crisis strike me as relevant to other academic pile-ons. One is the divide between what people say in private and what they’re willing to say in public. The other is the willingness of people to denounce the paper without bothering to read it.

Tuvel: Even prominent people who have tenure and are very well established wrote me sheepishly: “Hey, I’m so sorry for what’s going on, and I’m also sorry that I’m not speaking out. But I just can’t handle it.” Most people are conflict-averse. They are not looking to make enemies. And online there was a great deal of social pressure to publicly support the case against me, and to sign the open letter as quickly as possible. This controversy would not have unfolded the way it did were it not for the dynamics and especially the speed of social media.

Goldstein: You were not immune from this dynamic. As a grad student, you had signed a petition denouncing Brian Leiter, of the University of Chicago.

Tuvel: I wrote him an apology. He was hugely supportive of me on his blog, and I was completely mortified to learn, which I hadn’t remembered, that I had signed that petition. I can guarantee you that I had no idea what I signed on to at the time, just that Brian Leiter was a person you should be against. It’s embarrassing to admit.

Professor Tuvel did kindly send me an apology, and it did confirm what was clear at the time, namely, that many of those suckered by that neurotic faker Carrie Jenkins and her enablers didn’t know what they were signing, they just knew they hated the philosophy rankings I founded and ran for a quarter-century.

(An amusing sidenote: Jenkins and the smarmy Jonathan Ichikawa were for several years the “poster kids” for polyamory. As someone pointed out to me awhile ago, they have now separated, which was predictable given their very public narcissistic weirdness.)