About the current academic rejection of magic as a category

kind of feel like this reluctance to engage with magic represents a kind of academic ambivalence
not a reluctance to engage with the subject matter
but
the desire to condemn that characterised academic engagement in the past is dead
but they can't envision a model under which they embrace it
so they seek to marginalise the category through strategies of abandonment

traditionalism's vision for the world

Traditionalism's vision is a world run by various groups of old men who broadly agree, fighting viscously to dominate each other