Now Explain What the Problem Is
When people use the academic term problematic, they should say what they’re objecting to.
![Illustration of a wheel with the words "problematic."](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/MVg-_StgVAQAsFMK0IEiXIehRnw=/1823x0:6511x4688/80x80/media/img/mt/2021/10/Problematic_2_01/original.png)
When people use the academic term problematic, they should say what they’re objecting to.
Today’s campus controversies reflect a battle between two distinct conceptions of the term—what the Greeks called isegoria and parrhesia.