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When historian Tony Judt cared passionately about a problem he was able to redefine its terms. Pity he didn't care about a few more things.

Mark GreifMar 30, 2012
(Joe Ciardiello)

Thinking the Twentieth Century lets us listen in on conversations between distinguished colleagues, the intellectual historian Tony Judt and the Eastern Europeanist Timothy Snyder. It conveys the sort of conversation that two scholars may have when they share the same knowledge, references, and opinions.

Beyond Intellectualism.

tappededitorFeb 15, 2011

Robert Wright writes about becoming an anti-intellectual intellectual.

I spent much of high school trying not to be interested in ideas. I studied hard and made good grades, but I didn't hang out with the nerds. This was partly because hanging out with nerds wasn't cool and partly because the kind of intellectualism they exuded didn't enthrall me. They talked about Camus and Sartre and Nietzsche -- people I hadn't heard much about in my life as an Army brat and people my mildly anti-intellectual father would have disdained had anyone explained to him who they were.