Please read Ian's latest one out of the park. Simple and straightforward, I hope that some of you share this with your perhaps less aware friends about how the intellectual project has been very effectively hijacked by the right wing over the last two generations. I've seen this up close and personal, and it is a subject that can still make my blood boil. Just as I imagine my friends from/at Harvard must feel, whenever I remind them that Chimpy also has that flavor of sheepskin in his possession.

One thing I'd add to this excellent essay is that while on the one hand, lesser "intellectuals" have been steadily elevated to positions of prominence on Scaife funded wings, the other sad truth is that far too many competent and degreed people have been shut out of their rightful places in our society and economy. Read more…