The late professor Archie Singham, former member of the Nation editorial board, longtime Caribbeanist and activist-scholar indicts the obscurantism and theoretical vagueness of academia as one of the primary impediments to a truly democratic media. Singham contends that issues such as foreign policy would weigh more heavily on the conscience of ordinary citizens if the sources of information were not hopelessly muddied by academic lingo. Singham adds, that it is this academic monopoly on political affairs, which have made us a society fixated on the machinations of war rather than the possibilities of peace.