Yes, compared to a two-term President of the United States whose policy program enshrined progressivism, Constitutional contempt, and 'scientific racism' into our lives via governmental fiat? Charles Murray is practically some palooka on the street. https://twitter.com/RomanShuster/status/1215471846352703488 …
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This is a comparative game we're being asked to play. No public intellectual has had a more deleterious effect on the US republic -- by bipartisan consensus! -- in nearly every single way, from race to civil liberties to foreign policy, than Woodrow Wilson.
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Wilson *resegregated* the federal gov't. He threw his political opponents in prison for speaking against his war policies. He openly argued the Constitution was a hindrance & progressivism demanded it be discarded. And his foreign policy was one blundering disaster after another.
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There is no comparison: he is the worst purely AMERICAN public intellectual in American history, precisely because he wielded power (and then, when he stroked out, let his wife do so secretly). The most evil human being to ever become President, and it's not close.
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And it's such an amusingly 'Vox' sort of thing that Beauchamp doesn't know enough about history to know these things.
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I like how they keep congratulating each other for thinking Art Laffer is a good answer.
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The lesson is that if you reduce the cost of producing anti-Art Laffer takes, you get more of them.
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I’m no Rand fan but I don’t think she was influential enough to beat out Dan’s answer, which is the correct one: Woodrow Wilson
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She's not an intellectual. She's a hack.
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There are many, many, many intellectuals who are also hacks.
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