Intellectuals

I have run for office as a Republican. When a magazine starts writing puff pieces for Cory Booker, it is reasonable to wonder if they are leftist hacks. When they are being financed by leftist hacks, it is pretty much a certainty.

The apathetic King Prawn View Comment:. Have you actually read it and formed your own opinion? No matter how flawed the Republican candidate is there are exceptions — David Duke comes to mind , I will give him my vote over the Democrat party.

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When I see, hear, and read conservatives who rail against Trump, almost all of the criticism is against him personally, not his positions immigration and tariffs draw the most fire. Their principled complete sellout is just breathtaking. I like your post very much, Max. Although there are parts I may not fully agree with, I think you describe the situation quite well.

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But then I never was a NeverTrumper, and remain uneasy with his presidency. Gary Robbins View Comment:. Here is a better question: If you had the choice of a President Trump or President Reagan, who would you prefer?

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I think that the overwhelming majority of Republicans would prefer President Reagan. The Death of the Weekly Standard signals the rebirth of the right. Good riddance to the fake conservatives and warmongers. The final years of The Weekly Standard , and of neoconservatism generally have been a sad coda on what had been an intellectually vibrant political initiative and ensure that its best-known legacy will be cheerleading endless, winless wars in the Middle East and carrying water for TheResistance. Sometime in , Kristol and the magazine he founded declared war on the American Right and the Republican Party.

But things on the political and cultural landscape are changing quickly and the Standard paid a price for treating their fellow Americans like pieces on a board. The Republicans and independents who supported Reagan and now support Trump want their country back. The struggle with the Left for the future of the country is ongoing, but part of that battle is unifying the Right around a common set of historic American principles. He was a person of great intellect. He does not play football — his interests are mainly intellectual. References in classic literature?

Saintsbury rightly points out, in correction of an imperfectly informed French critic of our literature the radical distinction between poetry and prose has ever been recognized by its students, yet the imaginative impulse, which is perhaps the richest of our purely intellectual gifts, has been apt to invade the province of that tact and good judgment, alike as to matter and manner, in which we are not richer than other people.

He knew, for example, that however magnetic his ascendency in some respects was over Starbuck, yet that ascendency did not cover the complete spiritual man any more than mere corporeal superiority involves intellectual mastership; for to the purely spiritual, the intellectual but stand in a sort of corporeal relation.

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THIS courage, at last become subtle, spiritual and intellectual , this human courage, with eagle's pinions and serpent's wisdom: THIS, it seemeth to me, is called at present--" View in context. Life meanwhile- real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions- went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction.

He has, therefore, requested me to reply in his behalf to two special objections, one of an intellectual , the other of a moral nature. Test Your Knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the way. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

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Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Adjective blue , cerebral , eggheaded , geeky , highbrow , highbrowed , intellectualist , intellectualistic , long-haired or longhair , nerdish , nerdy Synonyms: Noun double-dome , egghead , geek , highbrow , intellectualist , longhair , nerd Antonyms: Adjective anti-intellectual , lowbrow , nonintellectual , philistine Antonyms: Noun anti-intellectual , lowbrow , philistine Visit the Thesaurus for More.

Examples of intellectual in a Sentence Adjective the social and intellectual life of the campus as the daughter of college professors, she's used to being around intellectual people Noun He thinks that he's an intellectual , but he doesn't know what he's talking about.