Current：Home > StocksIntellectuals vs. The Internet -Wealthify
Intellectuals vs. The Internet
View
Date：2025-04-15 06:52:02
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！ (65993)
Related
- Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
- Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence
- Bernie Sanders will vote no on Biden's pick to lead NIH, but nomination may proceed
- Jenna Ellis becomes latest Trump lawyer to plead guilty over efforts to overturn Georgia’s election
- Skins Game to make return to Thanksgiving week with a modern look
- Gaza has oil markets on edge. That could build more urgency to shift to renewables, IEA head says
- Possible motive revealed week after renowned Iranian film director and wife stabbed to death
- Fully preserved ancient river landscape discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet
- Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
- A Hong Kong court upholds a ruling in favor of equal inheritance rights for same-sex couples
Ranking
- Who are the most valuable sports franchises? Forbes releases new list of top 50 teams
- Video shows Coast Guard rescuing 4 from capsized catamaran off North Carolina
- The 1st major snowstorm of the season is expected to hit the northern Rockies after a warm fall
- Horoscopes Today, October 23, 2023
- Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
- TSA investigating after state senator arrested abroad for bringing gun in carry-on
- California orders Cruise driverless cars off the roads because of safety concerns
- Extremists with ties to the Islamic State group kill at least 26 people in eastern Congo
Recommendation
EU countries double down on a halt to Syrian asylum claims but will not yet send people back
Spain’s acting government to push for a 37½-hour workweek. That’s if it can remain in power
Tom Schwartz's Winter House Hookups With Below Deck's Katie Flood Revealed
Trump declines to endorse GOP speaker candidate for now, says he's trying to stay out of it
What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz
Kurt Cobain's Daughter Frances Bean Marries Tony Hawk's Son Riley
Man who cyberstalked parent of Parkland shooting victim sentenced to year in prison
Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence