Excuse Me, Officer, Could You Direct Me to the Nearest Public Intellectual?
Spectator, The; London › July 31, 2009
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Perhaps our intelligentsia will only abandon its excessive regard for intellectuals once it is convinced that intellectuals can also be right-wing. Plenty have been. The term bien pensants - now used only about left-liberals - was invented to describe the royalist and absolutist intellectuals of Third Republic France, such as Charles Maurras. But, as already mentioned, the neoconservatives tend to be intellectuals.
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Excuse Me, Officer, Could You Direct Me to the Nearest Public Intellectual?
Prospect magazine has cleverly won itself some publicity with a list in its July issue of 'the top 100 British public intellectuals'. It being alphabetical, Tariq Ali's name, I was pleased to see, was at its head.
As a Tory, I am an opponent of American neoconservatism. British Toryism should always oppose internationalist ideologies, of whi...See the full content of this document
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