Robert J Samuelson (1945-2025) and can there be rational protests against the university economics curriculum?

The interestingly named American economic journalist Robert J Samuelson died on December 13th of this year. He said that economists were a small group who write for each other, whereas he wrote accessibly on economic issues for the wider public. He sounds to me like a polite version of student protestors against economics. Here I propose that the rational actor model tradition of economics, which still dominates, blocks rational protest within universities themselves: it is to the advantage of academically gifted young men and women, because of the demands of imagination that it makes upon you, if you want to conceive such a model. If you protest against the curriculum, then there is a question of what are you doing in a university? A university is surely for the academically gifted!