Wow, Robert, that's a blast from the past! And I had never seen the article about Ursula Niebuhr—how fascinating! Thank you for sharing both. And while I focused on racism in this post, I certainly think that patriarchy can have much the same impairing effect—makes men (and not infrequently women as well)—less capable of understanding the actual mechanics of how intellectual exchange functions, such as giving full recognition to the women who are their "hidden" collaborators.
You make a comparable argument about patriarchy and cognitive impairment here: https://s-usih.org/2014/02/the-problem-that-has-no-name-guest-post-by-andrew-seal/ Which reminded me of this article: https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-01/uncredited
Wow, Robert, that's a blast from the past! And I had never seen the article about Ursula Niebuhr—how fascinating! Thank you for sharing both. And while I focused on racism in this post, I certainly think that patriarchy can have much the same impairing effect—makes men (and not infrequently women as well)—less capable of understanding the actual mechanics of how intellectual exchange functions, such as giving full recognition to the women who are their "hidden" collaborators.