PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS NOT PUBLIC PARASITES “The character of the presidency is su

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS NOT PUBLIC PARASITES

“The character of the presidency is such,” the British journalist Henry Fairlie wrote in 1967, “that the majority of the people can be persuaded to look to it for a kind of leadership which no politician, in my opinion, should be allowed, let alone invited, to give. ‘If people want a sense of purpose,’ [former British Prime Minister] Harold Macmillan once said to me, ‘they should get it from their archbishops.’”