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"Organic intellectual" is not strictly identical with "public intellectual," of course, and one wonders whether Russell Jacoby understands who exactly he's signed up to teach, given his understanding of the term "public intellectual" (in The Last Intellectuals he defines it as one who writes with "vigor and clarity," not as an activist or left-wing scholar).
In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.
Conservatives slobber over Jacoby's conservative denunciations of affirmative action.
As a dig at the left, they compare Jacoby's reportage favorably with Nicholas Lemann's in his liberal classic, The Promised Land . Meanwhile, liberals carp that her tone mirrors the anger of the black radicals she depicts.
Book -- Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration , by Tamar Jacoby;