Jonathan EmmesediJohn Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“ #Working-class #intellectuals have vanished in recent years. Instead we have witnessed the rise of #millionaire—or #billionaire - intellectuals.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a P...
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a P...
earthling"There is little that the ordinary man of today learns about events or ideas except through the medium of this class."
"It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told to us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented."
Hayek
Thor A. Hopland«His critics’ accusation was, Said argued, a confession. It was they who were ideologically blinkered by the #UK’s #pseudointellectual class, “the insiders, experts, coteries [and] professionals who … mould public opinion, make it conformist [and] encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power.”»
Today’s Public #Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve #Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/todays-public-intellectuals-are-more-likely-to-serve-power-than-challenge-it/
#Ironic that a country created in large part by an assemblage of #Enlightenment #intellectuals has its #institutions and #publiclife so thoroughly degraded by an especially virulent expression of #anti-intellectualism.
#US
Wisdom in SpaceHumor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
Atma UnumThroughout history, intellectuals and artists have navigated complex relationships with power, influencing societal norms while facing challenges. 🎨✊ #ArtAndPower #Intellectuals #Creativity #ArtForChange #CulturalDynamics
N-gated Hacker NewsApparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
