Current：Home > NewsIntellectuals vs. The Internet -InfinityFinance
Intellectuals vs. The Internet
View
Date：2025-04-18 09:19:18
What good is a Humanities degree? According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks and Jason Stanley, the humanities help us better connect to other humans. According to a lot of online haters, they're worthless.
Dr. Louks recently posted her Cambridge University PhD thesis online and was piled on by a loud group of right-wing anti-intellectuals. Brittany, Dr. Louks, and Jason Stanley, a professor of Philosophy at Yale University investigate the backlash to Dr. Louks, higher education at large, and why "anti-intellectualism" is prevalent in Republican politics.
Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus. Join NPR+ today.
veryGood！ (473)
Related
- North Carolina justices rule for restaurants in COVID
- What's the best 'Home Alone' movie? Compare ratings for all six films
- Toyota small car maker Daihatsu shuts down Japan factories during probe of bogus safety tests
- How Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond Keeps Her Marriage Hot—And It's Not What You Think
- 'Most Whopper
- Philadelphia Eagles nearly gift game to New York Giants, survive sloppy second half in win
- Turkey steps up airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq after 12 soldiers were killed
- NFL Week 16 winners, losers: Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers keep surging
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaces with darkly humorous comments
Ranking
- Gen. Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance revoked, Pentagon says
- Iran dismisses U.S. claims it is involved in Red Sea ship attacks
- A landslide in eastern Congo’s South Kivu province killed at least 4 people and some 20 are missing
- Restriction on carrying guns in Omaha and Lincoln violate Nebraska law, lawsuits say
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- Dallas Cowboys resigned to playoffs starting on road after loss to Miami Dolphins
- NFL Week 16 winners, losers: Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers keep surging
- Pope Francis denounces the weapons industry as he makes a Christmas appeal for peace in the world
Recommendation
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
4 young children and their mother were killed in their French home. The father is in custody
The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
Queen Latifah says historic Kennedy Center honor celebrates hip-hop's evolution: It should be embraced more
Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
Horoscopes Today, December 23, 2023
Philadelphia Eagles nearly gift game to New York Giants, survive sloppy second half in win
Morocoin Trading Exchange: Support for MSB License Regulation.