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Lawrence Krauss, a renowned theoretical physicist and outspoken atheist, is not an eager critic of the Left, nor of academia, which he regards as historically the most enlightened part of society. Despite recent attempts by many on the Left to cast him as a right-wing pundit, Krauss is, fundamentally, just a scientist who wants to get back to work.