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If you read George Will's article fairly, the only judgment of academia that it seems he allows as his own is,

Intellectual inquiry in the humanities often is not open.

This is a pretty balanced opinion, not a broad-brush dismissal of the academy as a whole.

In post #1, DeweyCA wrote:

This article shows what an insulary bubble of groupthink that academia has become.

All of academia? Medicine including all the health professions? Engineering? Science? Languages? Should there be athletic programs? Anything good anywhere?

In post #3, LouAvul wrote:

I got my last of three diplomas in 2012. In the time I was in school, my observation of higher ed is that it’s populated by pretentious, pompous, self serving losers who couldn’t do anything worthwhile, so they went into education.

Diplomas? Interesting word choice. A high school grants a diploma. Community colleges grant Associates degrees and we call them diplomas. Perhaps you meant you had received Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral diplomas from some fine institutions of higher education.

Having put all this effort into your education (and one wonders why considering what you have written) do you hold any gratitude for any educator? Is any discipline "populated" by people capable of anything worthwhile? Medicine including all the health professions? Engineering? Science? Languages? Should there be athletic programs?