Current：Home > ScamsIntellectuals vs. The Internet -Wealth Evolution Experts
Intellectuals vs. The Internet
View
Date：2025-04-17 11:41:06
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！ (82)
Related
- DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
- A history of government shutdowns: The 14 times funding has lapsed since 1980
- A Dominican immigration agent is accused of raping a Haitian woman who was detained at an airport
- Georgia police arrest pair for selling nitrous oxide in balloons after concert
- Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
- Judge refuses to immediately block grant program for Black women entrepreneurs
- Canadian fashion mogul lured women and girls to bedroom suite at his Toronto HQ, prosecution alleges
- Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people
- South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
- Car crashes into Amish horse-drawn buggy in Minnesota, killing 2 people and the horse
Ranking
- Meet the volunteers risking their lives to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Haiti
- Third person arrested in connection with toddler's suspected overdose death at New York City day care
- Indiana man sentenced to 195 years in prison for killing 3 people
- Chasing the American Dream at Outback Steakhouse
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Husband of Bronx day care owner arrested in Mexico: Sources
- A Nobel prize-winning immigrant's view on American inequality
- Law aiming to ban drag performances in Texas is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
Recommendation
'Kraven the Hunter' spoilers! Let's dig into that twisty ending, supervillain reveal
University of Wisconsin regents select Mankato official to serve as new Parkside chancellor
Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick
Lionel Messi in limbo ahead of Inter Miami's big US Open Cup final. Latest injury update
DeepSeek: Did a little known Chinese startup cause a 'Sputnik moment' for AI?
When does 'The Kardashians' come back? Season 4 premiere date, schedule, how to watch
Mississippi announced incentives for company days after executive gave campaign money to governor
Writers will return to work on Wednesday, after union leadership votes to end strike