These criticisms seem to me quibbles or misunderstandings. I'm not sure whether you disagree with the article's upshot, a theme I've pursued in lots of other articles.

I said Socrates was executed "in part" for embarrassing folks with his interrogations, which indeed questioned conventional wisdom. The two go hand in hand since the harder you look, the more you see through that which is transparently questionable.

What does modern society have in common with the Inquisition? Modernity is about spreading knowledge, whereas Christendom was about hiding it.

I agree that academic philosophy retreats from the public to protect its dubious air of professionalism and quasi-scientific rigor. And certainly there have been philosophers who talked about ethics and practical applications of philosophy. But a big difference between Western and Eastern philosophy is that the West has been more countercultural in that respect, in leaving the masses to their devices. Christendom was largely to blame in that philosophy had to be heretical since the Christian creed was already the mass's gospel and Bible.

In any case, it's also possible that philosophers retreat from popular culture because of how distasteful and degenerate the latter has been in the West. Again, Christendom bears some of the blame for that.