The panel sounds like it was great, and your summary was awesome. I don't know much about funding in the US (and less about teaching there), but in Canada, the federal government has cut its humanities funding by--you guessed it--bookmarking a portion of what used to go to humanities students to business students only. Fantastic.

I'm particularly interested in this anti-intellectual/polarizing stuff as it relates to the net, because that's the location of so much political debate and "debate" these days. And in space that are unmoderated, or poorly moderated, you really do see this thing where it's force, persistence, and sometimes cruelty, that can win out over any type of real argument. And it's telling that I have even been encouraged to think of it as "winning" -- not knowledge-producing.

And I had something else to add but I forget. I might be back!