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The Ideas Industry. How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas

The concept of the "public intellectual" has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted intellectuals who were able to write for the general public to semi-stardom. The first wave included figures like Walter Lippmann—who coined the term "stereotype" and is widely considered the founder of media studies—and by the 1950s, public intellectuals as a species had become a powerful and influential force in the American cultural...

11.05.2017

Of Salesmen and Hermits: Dan Drezner’s Ideas Industry Will Strike a Note in Russia

... and ‘political commentator’ — politolog . As a result, the media is full of commentary by politologs without any formal training, but with very sharp pens often serving a specific political cause. This severely devalues the weight of political science education and scholarship to the point where many experts specifically ask journalists not to refer to them as political scientists. Drezner sets out three underlying trends that are creating this new environment favorable to thought leaders and hostile to public intellectuals. First, declining trust in authority and traditional institutions of influence, above ...

11.05.2017

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