Public Intellectuals, A Story of Decline

Public Intellectuals, a Story of Decline

Books of Our Time host, Lawrence R. Velvel and author Richard A. Posner, a Federal Court of Appeals judge from Chicago  discuss the interesting decline of the number and possibly quality of "public intellectuals."  Judge Posner defines these as prominant people in a culture whose ideas and writings are spread beyond academic circles.  He believes that there is a trend for intellectualism to now be centralized in the academic settings and not generally as available to the public as were those of noted thinkers and philosophers of previous times.

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