Our Intellectuals Have Nothing Valuable To Say
From the Tom Woods Letter:
Auron MacIntyre, who’s been a Tom Woods Show guest several times, makes an excellent point about making our intellectuals into “content creators”:
The right is facing a serious problem about how to handle its intellectuals.
The left has the university, where it can assign smart people good-paying, high-status jobs where they can explore and cultivate ideas.
The right has no similar institutions, so right-wing intellectuals end up in think-tanks or content production.
This creates the “public intellectual” who comes onto the scene with a burst of insight.
Content production is a grind: even if you’re saying intelligent things eventually the need to say something about everything leaves you little time to think deeply about anything.
Academics are also not really equipped to be public figures; they are not built to do battle with a hostile public on a regular basis.
I think this is a lot of what has happened with guys like Jordan Peterson. He should be given the time to reflect on an issue and put out something ev
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