The responses to this post proves the point Professor Oliver and Ayn
> Rand made, that America has no intellectuals. We have here a bunch of
> presumably college-educated people -- doctors, conductors, engineers,
> managers, a disproportionate number from Ivy League colleges --
> descending to personalities, name calling, generalities. No one argues
> the points offered. Even the personalities, etc, are flung not as
> extended argument but as soundbites that would shame a Fox bimbo. QED.
>
> Every time I see more than two of what passes for American
> intellectuals together, I think of lemmings. Very politically correct
> lemmings, of course.
>
> Andre Jute
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>
> PS Oliver and Rand were right about Keynes, now a dead letter, but
> forty years ago so dominant that I was taken aside and kindly told
> that I would never get tenure if I didn't stop saying that Keynes was
> a fraud on the workers and the poor, who would pay for his inflation
> whereas it would make the aristocracy rich through their ownership of
> land, which is the best hedge against politicians demeaning the
> coinage.
Well, thanks for your highly valued opinion.