I suspect that the complaints of "anti-intellectualism" are too general. Critical-theorists make the same set of complaints. There's a big difference between an

I suspect that the complaints of "anti-intellectualism" are too general. Critical-theorists make the same set of complaints. There's a big difference between anti-intellectual and anti-bullshit sentiment. When bad ideas are dressed up in academic authority, well they often have a hard time outside of academia. That's what "too academic" means. That this could be another bad idea dressed in academic authority and we'd have no way to tell.