Frank Furedi on Intellectuals

Quote of the day: “The main argument of this book is that modern radicalism or liberalism can best be understood as a phase of the social history of the intellectuals.”

Quote of the month: “Tolstoy was genuinely pained and perplexed by his inability to appreciate Shakespeare.”

Text of the day: “They were bewitched by this tiny man.”

Text of the day: “You revolutionists,” the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, “are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as much a…