Not sure what you mean here, but there appears to be a lot of resistance to the idea that, god forbid, anybody anywhere in the world might have a higher education and/or appreciate something more than pop culture.

I like opera, renaissance art, pop culture, rock music, Impressionism, jazz, and kitsch, amongst other things.

I’m not sure what you mean by “more than” pop culture.

There is good art and bad art in all genres, which are just mediums of cultural communication that reach different audiences.

I didn’t understand the reductionist criticism of The Economist, which I have found to publish numerous examples of good criticism and bad criticism, about a range of topics, mostly to do with economics, and occasionally culture.

I don’t think culture is The Economist’s forte. They probably don’t either, except when cultural platforms have measurable economic consequences.

>I’m not sure what you mean by “more than” pop culture.

Basically that aside from there being "good art and bad art in all genres" there are is also more substantial and less substantial forms and artistic cultures.

How do you measure "substantial"?