That one was a doozy, but this was the final straw for me:
> Lessig walks a fine line between academic and activist
Society doesn't need (and can't afford) more people conflating activism and academy.
> Lessig walks a fine line between academic and activist
Society doesn't need (and can't afford) more people conflating activism and academy.
> Lester Lawrence Lessig III is an American academic, attorney, and political activist.
So it's pretty clear that he's both.
Others have rightly pointed out that there have been many examples of academics who were also activists, and you're pointing out that Lessig is an academic on paper (as are the "academics" I referenced in the previous paragraph, although Lessig may be legitimate). Both of these are valid, correct observations, but they miss my point (which isn't to say that my point is good; only that it survives these observations! :) ).
Montesquieu, Burke, etc...
Academic ideas renew society.