Against Complicating Matters

I enjoyed this opinion piece in the Feb. 29 issue of The Chronicle Review: "Not to Complicate Matters, but...". Here UCLA history professor Russell Jacoby takes some fashionable nonsense to task, namely the postmodernist (or otherwise trendy) "devotion to complexity". Or put otherwise, unnecessarily complicating matters with the result being a conceptual fog of uncertainty and confusion. Yet another silly trend rightfully criticized... thanks Professor Jacoby.