> you can draw a straight line from that to the anti-intellectualism that dominates our social discourse today Really? Could you elaborate? From my perspectiv

> you can draw a straight line from that to the anti-intellectualism that dominates our social discourse today Really? Could you elaborate? From my perspective, the two groups you connect seem more opposed than anything. The prevailing strains of anti-intellectualism despise what they perceive as ivory-tower academia, and the sorts of people who dabble in poststructuralism & the like tend to be the very model of the anti-intellectuals' villain. To, say, the average climate change denier, the social sciences aren't "real science", they're only good for jobs at Starbucks - and if critical theory's even on their radar, it's as an enemy, lumped in with the "cultural marxism" bogeyman.