Tag: intellectuals

Midwits: The True Enemies of Counter-Revolution

The Midwit Meme claims that the uneducated and the very educated are natural allies. The real problem is found with those towards the centre of the spectrum, the slightly educated lot.

Poland’s Best Kept Secret

Poland’s conservative thought offered some crucial contributions in the early modern period of European history. Now, as Legutko, Stawrowski, Roszkowski, and others show us, it may also offer original solutions and alternatives to the maladies that rot the old continent today.

The Seductiveness of Ideology in Politics

Not all the ideas that public intellectuals have are valuable. Far from it. For ideas to have value they must be based upon and capable of being tested by experience. Too often, they are not.