http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/anti-intellectualism/default.aspxTags: anti-intellectualismenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/as-proust-and-france-gall-would-say-ne-soyons-pas-si-bete.aspxTue, 14 Oct 2008 15:23:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3834Melinda Henneberger0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3834.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3834Rachael , I don't guess I know that many people who think of themselves as intellectuals—or would say so out loud, at any rate, no matter how much they love kicking around ideas. (My mom described me that way once, in anger, and it was soooo not a compliment....(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/as-proust-and-france-gall-would-say-ne-soyons-pas-si-bete.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3834" width="1" height="1">Barack ObamaacademicsBill ClintonAl Goreanti-intellectualismintellectualismPat MoynihanBill BradleyLionel Trillinghttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/13/thoughts-on-intellectuals-and-anti-intellctuals.aspxMon, 13 Oct 2008 21:10:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3827Rachael Larimore0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3827.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3827I'm just catching up on the Palin-Bush "I.Q." discussion , and there is just one point (OK, maybe two) I wanted to address. Juliet, I don't know anyone who feels a "nearly blood-thirsty anger against people who read books," and I think it's an unfair...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/13/thoughts-on-intellectuals-and-anti-intellctuals.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3827" width="1" height="1">John McCainSarah Palinanti-intellectualismintellectualism