It's Time for 'Comparative Intellectuals'

French intellectuals project an image of bon-vivant operators -- stylishly balancing TV commitments, anti-Americanism, and half-year California appointments. British intellectuals still suggest an old-boy camaraderie of lads (and ladies) who romped together at university with current ministers. Italian intellectuals wonder why they're not French or British intellectuals.

The Germans? They understandably continue to emit a kind of hangdog hauntedness -- a visual metaphysics whose home

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