More on pseudonymity: Steven den Beste is
suspicious of people who post under pseudonyms, such as Demosthenes or Publius. He
particularly suspects that pseudonymous pundits may be too
cowardly to take an unpopular stand, and take the rap for it, and
may even be advocating views and policies which they don't
wholly believe in themselves. As seems to have been true in the
latter case, once the mask slipped off --- the primary Publius had
deep reservations about what he was pseudonymously advocating (at one
point saying "no man's ideas were more remote from the plan than
[mine] were known to be"), but as Publius, he spoke for it
nonetheless.
Den Beste also doesn't believe that a pseudonymous voice shouting into the wind is likely to have any meaningful influence on public debate.
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