A lot of “intellectuals” accept false premises related to Marxism, sexual matters, and anti-religion/anti-western civilization views. That’s a problem.
You mean intellectuals like William F. Buckley Jr., William Rusher, Milton and Rose Friedman, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Gertrude Himmelfarb, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, M. Stanton Evans and Russell Kirk? (The names Thomas cites in his article)
So sorry I wasn’t clear enough for you. I am obviously making an observation about so-called “intellectuals” who are active on the scene today. I respect few of these active “intellectuals”. You just gave me a list of (mostly) dead people. Yeah. They were great. They were intellectuals without the quotes. They were the real deal. They’re dead. Where does that leave us now?
Gertrude Himmelfarb was Bill Kristol’s mother. Perhaps she should have spent some more time raising him as a real conservative instead of a retarded grifter.
I am a huge fan of M. Stanton Evans. He didn’t change my political foundation the way Whitaker Chambers did when I read his book “Witness”.
But reading his book “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” really had an effect on me.
I think what it was, in both books, was that listening to both authors so accurately describe the behavior of the Left back in the Forties and Fifties, simply brightly illuminated the fact the the Left today practices exactly the same behaviors, and employs the same tactics as their forebears did back then.
For them, the politics of personal destruction and the aversion to American values, is a constant.
Technology may change, but for them, the underpinnings are the same.
We were a smarter, more serious, less distracted people when those luminaries came up.
The Internet alone is dwarfing brains now.