Monthly Archives: March 2017

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Intellectuals and Liberals

From Jonah Goldberg at National Review, The Science of Intellectual Tribalism There’s a long progressive tradition in America to think that intellectuals must be liberal, and therefore intellectualism equals liberalism. If you believe that intellectualism requires being loyal to a

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Pessimism Sells

Admittedly, myopic pessimism, from the right or left, sells. The late Allan Bloom’s right-wing pessimism, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), sold half a million copies merely in hardback. Shortly afterward, at a little conference we both attended, Allan

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