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\"\"<\/a>Over on the First Things blog, Nathaniel Peters \u00a0<\/a>points us to this sharp article by Thomas Sowell<\/a>\u00a0that notes the crowing of journalists that with the election of Obama we have turned away from the anti intelligent position of America. Now \u2018intellectuals\u2019 are going to be valued. Intellectuals (we should explain) are people who are comfortable with complexity, like ideas and read the classics. Sowell points out how intellectuals down through the ages have consistently messed up big time.<\/p>\n

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Fact is, you might be really smart and really educated, and your theories might sound wonderful, but if your basic principles and foundation assumptions are wrong you\u2019ll end up with the wrong conclusions, and Sowell shows how those wrong conclusions cost lives.<\/div>\n
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Check out Sowell\u2019s article. I especially like this quotation from Wm Buckley saying he\u2019d rather be represented by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.<\/div>\n
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Over on the First Things blog, Nathaniel Peters \u00a0points us to this sharp article by Thomas Sowell\u00a0that notes the crowing of journalists that with the election of Obama we have turned away from the anti intelligent position of America. Now \u2018intellectuals\u2019 are going to be valued. 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