Intellectual warfare: Pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-populists duke it out. (Columns).
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2002-05-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Political activity | George W. Bush |
| Person | Behavior | Mark Crispin Miller |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
IN THE MARCH 4 New Yorker, Aaron Sorkin, executive producer of NBC'S The West Wing, referred to President Bush as a "bubblehead." The ensuing flap found commentators across the political spectrum cast in familiar roles: liberals deriding conservatives as dumb, ignorant boors and conservatives deriding liberals as egg-headed, arrogant elitists.
Each side in this shouting match often seems determined to live down to the other's Stereotype of itself--even though, in fact, the relationship between conservatism, intellect, and even intellectual elitism is infinitely more complex...
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