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As often happens when intellectuals discuss Flytrap, Nagel lapses into a tone of world-weary, almost European snobbishness, declaring that America's inability to respect the rules of civility reveals its immaturity as a society.
It is this obsession, which far exceeds anything I have ever encountered in any scholar (and scholars and intellectuals have no little ego and no little ambition), this need to have his fingerprints everywhere, that I find curious but that I also think, ultimately for Gates, is destructive of the very end he probably wants to achieve.
We are now living in the world that Reagan made, a world in which entrepreneurs and not intellectuals are directing the nation's future.
It's pretty presumptuous for any professor to declare his students "public intellectuals"; you would much rather they got their certification as such from someone else.
But many people interested in such things have never heard of Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine , and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha , amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography , showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses.