Academic Writing

I was left bemused by Roger Scruton’s (“Art of Making Sense Is a Thing of the Past,” Column Right, Oct. 20) commentary complaining about the state of contemporary academic writing.

The philosophers he wistfully offers as exemplars of clear writing are the very ones to whom we owe thanks for the gibberish produced by their epistemological offspring.

The Kantian divorce of mind from reality was couched in the grammar of an earlier age of reason. Is there any wonder that in the aftermath of the divorce the children are without guidance and cannot speak in any meaningful way?

ROD FREER

Los Angeles