https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/15/how-to-succeed-as-a-court-jester/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:59:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/15/how-to-succeed-as-a-court-jester/comment-page-1/#comment-7377 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:59:29 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1351#comment-7377 IOW, “public” in “public intellectual” is an alienans adjective.

]]> https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2010/09/15/how-to-succeed-as-a-court-jester/comment-page-1/#comment-7376 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:59:53 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1351#comment-7376 I once heard Jean Bethke Elshtain say, “The problem with being a ‘public intellectual’ is that as time goes by you become more and more public and less and less intellectual.”

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