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IMHO
(In My Humble Opinion)
Big Brains, Small Impact
20 years ago, the author chided his peers for their academic insularity. They roared in outrage. Of course, no one heard them.
Twenty years ago, I published The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, which put into circulation the term "public intellectual." I offered a generational explanation...
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