Your fans include Christian conservatives, atheist libertarians, the hard right and neo-Nazis. Do you disown any of your followers or their actions?
Well, the Christians are somewhat ambivalent about me. I’m a bit too much on the gnostic side for most of them. I wouldn’t agree [that I have neo-Nazi followers]. The hard-right people aren’t very thrilled with me. I’ve said very forthrightly that I don’t care who’s playing identity politics, whether it’s on the right or the left. It’s reprehensible. I haven’t gone after the hard right as much politically, although I have in my lectures, but the reason is the hard right doesn’t occupy the university – the hard left does. Alan Dershowitz, an extremely liberal lawyer at Harvard, said last week that the hard left in the universities posed a clear and present danger to free speech, and that the alt-right is mostly a figment of their imagination.