The Crisis of the American Intellectual

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stephenkmacksd
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/

If you read this long article By Walter Russell Mead you must read the devastating reply by Frank, listed as reply #8. It is masterful. Frank is on his game, and takes the space that he needs to really critique Mr. Mead point by point while maintaining his narrative pace. You must read this reply after the post by Mr. Mead. Superb!!!  

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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