Don’t Mess With PhDs
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Doctorate Holder Scorned
6 min readDec 14, 2020
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When I saw it trending, I thought, no! Not another “Doctorgate.”
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last weekend, essayist and former professor Joseph Epstein attempted to make a point about academic pomposity (as well as the proliferation of frivolous PhDs in some fields) by suggesting that, as first lady, Jill Biden…