pseudo intellectual

Mandeville, LA- The "think tank" that Joshua Maruvchik claims as his professorial home is supposed to be the incubation center for our best and brightest, our "[pseudo]-intellectuals. This is obviously not what the "Ivy League" or it's preparatory schools are producing. In the essay "Intellectuals And Their Discontents" Russell Jacoby lays out the experience of the classical, "public intellectual" which in ancient Roman days would have meant "orator" (Augustine was […]