Yet, I know I am giving one side. Someone must be standing up for mediocre, obscure, opaque scholarly expression: what we call MOOSE writing in my class. So, I was delighted to read in The ...

They’re Wrong.” The Chronicle Review, April 1). I’m delighted that Connolly, as a student, was “jolted awake” by “obscure, opaque, impenetrable, yet somehow captivating ideas.” ...