Jeffrey Toobin is a good example of a (left-wing) intellectual. Then we have neoconservative intellectuals like William Kristol. In our country, many of these people harm many of us indirectly because they influence the doings of their buddies in government, and quite often they enter government or are close to it. The presence of this coercive organization among us and over us, the State, is what enables these intellectuals to amplify their capacity to harm us. The intellectuals have their own ways of gaining power and influence. They are different than the ways of outright power-seekers like politicians, or union interests, or … Continue reading What Will Make Intellectuals Less Harmful?