Who Are America’s Intellectuals? Once They Were Artists, Scientists…. Now….

“We oscillate wildly between demonizing our intellectuals and deifying them; they appear to us, in turn, as nuisances, threats, and saviors. We cut their funding and then study how their brains function. We trust them with our economy, our climate, our media and our institutions, then rage against them for their failures–and then trust them all over again.”