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I\u2019m reminded of Paul Johnson\u2019s deliberately provocative book Intellectuals<\/em>, which illustrates through a series of biographical case studies\u00a0(of\u00a0Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre,\u00a0and others) how many lovers of \u201cmankind\u201d tend to be uncaring\u00a0beasts toward the actual human individuals so unfortunate as to be close to them.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock \u2014 highly\u00a0valued\u00a0in so very many ways \u2014 has written a characteristically good piece for the Deseret News: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865677614\/Ralph-Hancock-Two-cheers-for-nationalism.html \u00a0 I\u2019m reminded of Paul Johnson\u2019s deliberately provocative book Intellectuals, which illustrates through a series of biographical case studies\u00a0(of\u00a0Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre,\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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