Much in what he says ...

... AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Spotting the Pseudo-Intellectual. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I'm not too keen on intellectuals, period, though I have from time to time been accused of being one. Sure, I like ideas, but I don't think the intellect is most important faculty of consciousness. That, in my view, would be imagination. I'm also not sure if we've lost any real intellectuals to the academy, which has certainly bred a bumper crop of the pseudo variety. But then, so has journalism.