In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political o

In this timely book which has a new Preface and Epilogue, Posner charts the decline of the public intellectual, a venerable institution that includes worthies f

The author argues that the quality of writing and thinking of public intellectuals has steadily declined over the past seven decades, and offers some reasons wh

What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? By pondering the conceptual elements that inform the term, this book offers n

Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political l