I returned to this 1967 essay because of recent personal exposure to multiple disturbing essays, interviews, profiles, and podcasts with intellectuals whom I absolutely know for certain are better than they are willing to admit in public. https://brownstone.org/articles/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-2-0/
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals 2.0 ⋆ Brownstone Institute
The rebuilding will require the most implausible thing of all, a new generation of intellectuals who fall in love with freedom and defend it.