Universities and the “democracy of the gullible”

Universities and the “democracy of the gullible”
Jean Winand, UNESCO Courier, 2018/02/16
This is a good article and a weak article at the same time. It's a good article in the sense that it raises a significant issue and discusses it clearly and precisely. But it's a weak article in that it overstates the problem (it's simply not true that "no one thinks of criticizing the technical elite") and offers an overly broad resolution, taking a classic 'defense of the humanities' position. More...