Daniel Drezner on the Role of Public Intellectuals
Daniel W. Drezner has posted a forthcoming conference paper on the role of public intellectuals 2.0. The basic argument: the internet effectively increases access to academic work by lowering the transaction costs of fnding it and breaking through the jargon of field specialization. Moving beyond a few criticisms of how today’s intellectuals pale in comparison to their past counterparts (such as a few laundry lists of past intellectuals in comparison to their current peers as justification that the perceived decline of "great intellectuals" stems more from romanticism of the past then any real decline), Drezner addresses critiques levied against the Continue reading Daniel Drezner on the Role of Public Intellectuals