I ask only that my lenses be clear and clean and that discussion be free and full. We are on a thread that was started on the Chicago board by a current Chicago student and references Chicago and Stanford in its title. That is the context in which essays and the possibilities of fakery thereof came up. It’s especially pertinent at a school in which essays figure so importantly. You have a view that fakery is a real concern, you want to devalue essays accordingly, and you explicitly reference Chicago. I pushed back against this. It’s a disagreement. Meh. No need to invoke the rhetorical heavy artillery.