{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What's Wrong With Public Intellectuals?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/111517278238/", "html": "<a href=\"http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Wrong-With-Public/189921/\">What's Wrong With Public Intellectuals?</a>\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">For starters, they can&rsquo;t figure out who their public is. Maybe they could learn from their mid-century predecessors.<br/></blockquote><p>A founder/editor of n+1 perambulates around the concept of the &ldquo;public intellectual&rdquo;, with reference to Partisan Review, his experience, and the shifting role of academia in 20th century America.</p><p>I started selecting some excerpts but there were too many good ones; I started writing a summary but it too often doubles back and makes a show of its contradictions. None more striking than that between the concluding paragraphs and the comments immediately subsequent.<br/></p>"}