Yeshiva scholarship has no vector

The yeshiva world teaches a brand of scholarship that is locked into a mind set exclusively designed to ratify the diaspora. The yeshiva world could not, for example, conceive of Rabbi Moshe Sofer as being the one responsible for the Jewish people's passivity a century later before the Nazi threat. The yeshiva world would not know even how to frame such a proposition. 

The entire style of the yeshiva world’s learning, from top to bottom, is Jewish apologetics. Modern Orthodoxy is just another branch of that apologetics, only with the Modern Orthodox the apologetics is about justifying the rabbinic regime to the modernist sensibility rather than to the isolationist sensibility. 

What's altogether missing from the yeshiva style of learning is the presentation of research in such a way as to allow and encourage a scholar to fashion creative, new possibilities out of whatever scholarship is being published. All anyone can do with yeshiva scholarship is mimic the master, not extend his learning. As such, yeshiva learning is not really a collective enterprise. It does not invite the building of the case, one element on top of another. Each piece of yeshiva scholarship must be complete unto itself. Yeshiva scholarship has no vector. It doesn't go anywhere.