For starters, they can’t figure out who their public is. Maybe they could learn from their mid-century predecessors.

A founder/editor of n+1 perambulates around the concept of the “public intellectual”, with reference to Partisan Review, his experience, and the shifting role of academia in 20th century America.

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.