And he’s as much a lefty as any of them. He completely believed in the Evergreen culture, right up until they tried to ban white people from the campus, including professors. That was too much for him. He refused, and was hounded out of his job, after being physically threatened, along with his wife, also a professor at Evergreen.
It’s amazing how these intelligent people are able to go along with liberalism and not think it through to the end stages. Maybe because they’re not good at mathematics, which teaches you to be able to scale things up and down past the limits of comprehension.
Depending on the level & breadth of mathematics education, mathematics can if not careful lead you up the primrose path of everything is linear, predictable & calculable. Where you have little need to pay attention to physical constraints!