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20 Nov 2008 07:51 am
"Conservative" "Intellectuals"
The Economist puts the boot in:
Another reason is the degeneracy of the conservative intelligentsia
itself, a modern-day version of the 1970s liberals it arose to do
battle with: trapped in an ideological cocoon, defined by its outer
fringes, ruled by dynasties and incapable of adjusting to a changed
world. The movement has little to say about today’s pressing problems,
such as global warming and the debacle in Iraq, and expends too much of
its energy on xenophobia, homophobia and opposing stem-cell research.
Conservative intellectuals are also engaged in their own version of what Julian Benda dubbed la trahison des clercs,
the treason of the learned. They have fallen into constructing cartoon
images of “real Americans”, with their “volkish” wisdom and charming
habit of dropping their “g”s. Mrs Palin was invented as a national
political force by Beltway journalists from the Weekly Standard and the National Review who met her when they were on luxury cruises around Alaska, and then noisily championed her cause.
"Ruled by dynasties" is a nice touch.
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