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                                           January 17, 2010


  I'm starting to make a list of entries
  in the genre of "intellectual history
  with axe to grind"...

  "The Last Intellectuals"                      LAST_INTELLECTUALS
   by Russel Jacoby

  "The End of Intelligent Writing"
   by Richard Kostelanetz                       END_OF_INTELLIGENT_WRITING

   "The Metaphysical Club" (2001)               MENAND_CLUBBED
   by Louis Menand

   "Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline"
   (2001) by Richard A. Posner                  POSNER_DECLINES

   "Absent minds: intellectuals in
   Britain" (2006) by Stefan Collini            CALLING_COLLINI

   "The American Intellectual Elite" (1974)
   by Charles Kadushin  Second edition (2005)   KADUSHIN


  Perhaps:

     "The Geography of Nowhere"
      by James Howard Kunstler
                                               NOWHERE_MAN

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