>>12514239The right are not real intellectuals, they are public personalities. The ones on the left may have been public personalities as well but they made fundamental contributions. Everyone knows academia is in decay, this is true even for the humanities (maybe especially so).
Anyway if you want my take philosophy is important but metaphysics is dead and untenable. Also a lot of philosophy borders on schizo nonsense. Philosophy as social critique is valuable but ever since the 20th century it's been communist nonsense.
