The Responsibility of Intellectuals

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The Responsibility of Intellectuals [ + ] MENU HOME RECENT UPDATES BOOKS ARTICLES AUDIO AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS BIOS TALKS DEBATES LETTERS ABOUT The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky The New York Review of Books , February 23, 1967 TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years just after the war, and had occasion to read them again a few months ago. They seem to me to have lost none of their power or persuasiveness. Macdo

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