We used to have thinkers, now we have Thought Leaders. @davidsess explains what the hell went wrong: https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual …
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Drezner (and me) don't think thinkers have disappeared; his argument is that TLs are so prominent now because they are useful to the 1%.
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I worded my original tweet badly -- my point was TL had supplanted thinkers in prominence not that thinkers had disappeared
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