After reading Judith Butler for a class in college, reading "Professor of Parody" was such a breath of fresh air. Nussbaum is a clear thinker who doesn't take BS kindly.
Really good article. There is a whole cast of philosophical characters that have been supported because they provide a non-materialist subversive, yet directionless, politics that go no-where, great for capitalism. Some of them were even directly supported by the CIA. This is in part why politics is so empty today, the post-modernists won and call you names for wanting peace, real life choices, control over your work life, health care, etc while also not actually advancing the cause of equality among the different divisions of the working class beyond spoken words.
I thought this bit was particularly perceptive and foreshadows the situation in which we now find ourselves:
> Indeed, Butler’s naively empty politics is especially dangerous for the very causes she holds dear. For every friend of Butler, eager to engage in subversive performances that proclaim the repressiveness of heterosexual gender norms, there are dozens who would like to engage in subversive performances that flout the norms of tax compliance, of non-discrimination, of decent treatment of one’s fellow students. To such people we should say, you cannot simply resist as you please, for there are norms of fairness, decency, and dignity that entail that this is bad behavior.
https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody