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PAUL RAHE: The Vanity Of The Intellectuals. ?Intellectuals have a tendency to become whores. They ?

By Glenn Reynolds

PAUL RAHE: The Vanity Of The Intellectuals. “Intellectuals have a tendency to become whores. They are not especially well paid, and they resent the fact. But modest compensation is not the thing that bothers them the most. What they really crave is recognition, and in its pursuit they are apt to become slaves to fashion.” And, sometimes, as in the case of Benjamin Barber, servants to Khaddafy and apologists for Assad.

UPDATE: Related item here.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).