Interesting piece. What I most take from it is that we see just how nefarious academia is. It's scarcely more than a big left wing echo chamber, where they sit around in self-regard and mutual admiration. What's most frustrating about the left wing intelligentsia is that they are wrong on all the big picture items, consistently so, but they never suffer as a result. All these chin pullers like Samuelson spent half a century filling students' heads with horsesh*t, and even when proven demonstrably wrong they suffer no loss of reputation or influence. It's the same with the current AGW religion. No matter how much empirical data contradicts their hypothesis, they just double down on it.
The media are the same way. Really they're all just one big Bolshevik army, and their particular position in society (academia, government, journalism) is akin to an assignment from their officer corps. It's for this reason that whenever the reckoning commences, we must remember that entire cultural institutions were deliberately weaponized against us for generations, and we will have to deal with them accordingly.