Quote of the Day

"Intellectuals have a tendency to become whores.

Ha! Paul Rahe, you had me at whores!!!

"They are not especially well paid [ed note: actually, they are, they have a really sweet deal], and they resent the fact. But modest compensation is not the thing that bothers them the most. What they really crave is recognition, and in its pursuit they are apt to become slaves to fashion.

"But pursuing the latest intellectual fad is not the greatest of the sins that they are inclined to commit – for they are even more apt to adopt a servile and submissive posture when in the presence of political power. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all had an intellectual claque in the West. Fidel Castro still does. Even Kim Jong-il and Muamar Gaddafi have had such admirers."

"The main point that I want to make is that vanity, the vice that besets the intellectual, can make a man into a moron."