You've just described pretty much all 'public intellectuals'. This is not new, and they are professionally hated for a reason. The most egregious example of th

You've just described pretty much all 'public intellectuals'. This is not new, and they are professionally hated for a reason. The most egregious example of this is Malcolm Gladwell. Not one of his books is true in any sense of the word even at the time he wrote them. Yet that didn't stop him from becoming an expert in ... expertise.