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Nathan Young's avatar

i think there is a better equilibrium than “public intellectuals are bad” which is “other intellectuals should present their work more interestingly”

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Maxim Lott's avatar

Some public intellectuals are pretty vacuous, but others (Caplan) make serious cases via data.

Maybe we just need more serious public intellectuals to figure out exactly where Caplan and these establishment authors are reading the data differently, and illuminate that point of difference so that we can figure out who's correct.

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