https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/15/some-small-ideas-about-big-ideas/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:12:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/08/15/some-small-ideas-about-big-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-7836 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:12:32 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1718#comment-7836 I tried to read Gabler’s article you linked to, and I will try again tonight, but I stopped when he talked about the intellectuals William F. Buckley, Jr., Gore Vidal, and Norman Mailer in connection with “big ideas.” I heard and read the “big ideas” from those men at the time they were launching them and they were just mostly wrong. So, I must ask, what “brow” were these three? The highest? The lowest?

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