Upated musings on public intellectuals

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 2:57 PM Share

An abbreviated version of my "Public Intellectuals 2.0" essay was just published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The opening paragraph:

Disquisitions about public intellectuals usually conclude that they ain't what they used to be. Subtitles from recent books on the topic include A Study of Decline and An Endangered Species? Indeed, the major point of debate is dating the precise start of the decline and fall. For some critics, Götterdämmerung started in the 1950s; for others, the 1930s. More-curmudgeonly writers place the date earlier, stretching back to the heyday of John Stuart Mill or even the death of Socrates.

Go check it out.