Disclaimer: I don't like the writer either. However, I don't think he's trying to browbeat anyone. I think he's just living in the humanities bubble - and this

Disclaimer: I don't like the writer either. However, I don't think he's trying to browbeat anyone. I think he's just living in the humanities bubble - and this is all really middle-of-the-road stuff if you're in that world. >Fire them and get your education from YouTube. The problem is, you wouldn't get anywhere with the humanities by watching youtube. The online resources for philosophy are pretty bad, and for literature it's even worse. I think the point about the humanities - and about culture in general, is that you don't want to live in a society without it. You don't want to have a society where there are no politics professors, or sociologists, or philosophers. They aren't expensive, and they make it so if somebody is interested in one of those fields, they can actually find an expert. And if you don't have any experts, you end up with a shambolic politics, a dysfunctional society, and shitty philosophy. A lot of what america does wrong is to ignore people paid to think deeply about things in favour of the gut feelings of charlatans. People commonly notice this when scientists are ignored by politicians. Perhaps it would be worth it to extend the thought to other fields.