[lbo-talk] Signs of the Times

[Carrol Cox]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> I was responding to the assumption that there are zero intellectuals
> among Baptists.  I saw that Astra Taylor movie Examined Life earlier
> this year and it was kind of a jolt when Baptist Cornel West talked
> about his Christianity, but there it is.
> 
> So is Gingrich an intellectual?  He is an idea man isn't he? Stupid
> and abhorrent ideas but ideas none the less.

I agree.

Some of the posts on this question are trying to make "intellectual" a
'value' term - which is absurd. An intellectual is merely, as you say,
someone who works with ideas, and the quality or the perspective of
those ideas is irrelevant. Therre are probably in execess of a million
or more intellectuals in the U.S. 

Carrol