Showing posts with label Black intellectual history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black intellectual history. Show all posts

Info for Historians of Conservative Thought and those interested in Anti-Intellectualism in the US

I just noticed that Thomas Sowell has a new book out called "Intellectuals and Society." In a column in the Jewish World Review explaining the book, he argues thatThose whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas — the intellectuals — have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. ...But certainly, for the 20th century, it is hard to escape