More on Professor Death: Peter Singer and the Danger of the Humanities

I have little regard for the so-called thinking of Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. With rare exceptions, he generally spouts simplistic bromides with little foundation in reason or fact.

That is why he has long extolled Princeton's Professor Death, Peter Singer, for his animal liberation advocacy. He did so again the other day in a flaccid column about why the humanities still matter. From the column, "Don’t Dismiss the Humanities":

Peter Singer of Princeton University has pioneered t...