More than discrediting Goldberg, Professor Cole has revealed a great deal not only about himself, but about the Left in general. One wonders how many intellectuals, some of them with tenure, have spent the past week festering because, for all of their degrees and language knowledge and books authored, right-wing simpletons are not only being proven right, but they’re being proven to be on the right side of the issue.
The problem that so many intellectuals have — across the disciplines — is that they haven’t been visiting and learning languages and writing books to understand their subjects, but to cram them into a Leftist worldview. Consequently, an understanding of human nature, which is available to all of us equally, trumps scholarly perambulation, and the “academic retreat into expertise,” as Goldberg calls it, will become a retreat into obscurity and irrelevance when reality makes the people confident to laugh at the professors’ credentialized bluster.
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