1/When I asked about top public intellectuals, a lot of the names I heard most frequently were those of moderate conservatives, or at least people who push back against cultural liberalism. Sam Harris, Steve Pinker, Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt, Scott Alexander, etc.
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2/This could just reflect my followers (weighted towards high-earning men). Or there could just be so *many* liberal intellectuals that they split the vote, while a few conservative intellectuals unified the conservative vote...
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3/But I also wonder if there's a boom in conservative intellectualism due to the rapid decline of American Christianity.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/opinion/trump-scaramucci-evangelical-christian.html …
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I believe you are right that there is a boom. See: @AreoMagazine @jacobitemag @QuilletteM etc.
As well as singular bloggers: @toad_spotted @ortoiseortoise @hpmacd @DevinHeltonian etc.
I might be mischaracterising here. Various degrees of liberalism to conservatism.
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