Tyler Austin Harper: “White American elites … are always waiting in the wings to turn a shiny new Black intellectual into a mouthpiece for their political agenda”... more »
Intellectuals and the cult of seriousness. Sontag and Steiner made a performance of omniscience and moral solemnity that no one could honestly sustain... more »
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