An 'End Run' Around Liberals

To the Editor:

By focusing on the decline of public intellectuals, Russell Jacoby accounts for the introversion of academic liberals, but he neglects the rise of conservative intellectuals ("Big Brains, Small Impact," The Chronicle Review, January 11). Establishing a parallel network of think tanks — the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, and the Manhattan Institute, among others — conservative intellectuals executed an

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