Welcome to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles and this month we will be discussing

intellectuals by Paul Johnson. We're joined by the great Alan Estrin,

executive director of Prager You, right off the bat, here is the thesis of this book.

The rise of the secular intellectual has been a key factor in shaping the modern world.

For the first time in human history and with growing confidence and audacity,

men arose to assert that they could diagnose the ills of society and cure them with their own unaided

intellects. That's what Paul Johnson says an intellectual is and that's why

intellectuals are terrible, terrible people.

We will get to more specifics on that.

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