At most universities—and above all in their humanities faculties—capitalism is a dirty word. The market economy has very few supporters and many vehement critics. This is true in the United States—and ...

Is there anything new to say about intellectuals? Thomas Sowell, the conservative economist and writer who hangs his hat at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, gives it a shot. Sowell is a rare ...

One of the Supreme Court’s most powerful justices launched into a televised meltdown about “intellectuals.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas railed against progressivism, calling it an ...

In order to understand why so many intellectuals hold anti-capitalist views, it is important to realize that they are an elite, or at any rate a community of practice that defines itself as such.

Anyone who has read my book Intellectuals and Society would probably have a hard time recognizing any resemblance between what it says and what it is portrayed as saying in Russell Jacoby’s review ...

In 1937, Walter Kotschnig published a book with the prosaic title of Unemployment in the Learned Professions. It was a survey, country by country, of the plight of those with higher learning, and it ...

Following the collapse of socialist systems around the world at the end of the 1980s, the superiority of the market economy was clear to many. Nevertheless, latent or overt anti-capitalist animosities ...

Sociologist C. Wright Mills (left), author of the The Power Elite and other books, was a leading labor intellectual in the 1950s. He died in 1962. In These Times is at a crossroads and we urgently ...

Chinese public intellectuals have traditionally taken on the responsibility of acting as whistleblowers who call out egregious faults in the system. However, they are no longer as highly respected as ...

“IF I had learned education,” old Cornelius Vanderbilt once said, “I would not have had time to learn anything else.” That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump military leaders Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The ...