So far, the most enjoyable and the bluntest comments are made by Terry Eagleton:
(Again, from the same issue of the Antipode)
[aesop_quote type=”pull” background=”#282828″ text=”#ffffff” align=”center” size=”1″ quote=”Academics, for example, tend to restrict their labours to surreally narrow fields. I once came across a doctoral thesis in Cambridge entitled "Some aspects of the vaginal system of the flea". ("Some aspects" is appealingly English in its modest self-effacement: nothing too brash, ambitious or distastefully transatlantic.)” cite=”Antipode” parallax=”on” direction=”left” revealfx=”fromleft”]