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Mind Games.
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, by Richard A. Posner (Harvard, 408 pp., $29.95)
The decline of public intellectuals announced in Richard Posner's new book must have been a mighty precipitous thing. For the term "public intellectual" was popularized only in 1987, when UCLA historian Russell Jacoby used it to describe academics who pontificate on passing political issues for a general audience. The problem with such thinkers, for Posner as for Jacoby, is that they embody the modern university's weaknesses without drawing on its strengths. People attracted to scholarship today tend to be leeched of idiosyncrasy in the "Ph.D. mill," cosseted by tenure (or ...
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