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The article discusses the striking and surreal imagery used in the show Evil on Paramount+. Topics include the show's blending of horror and absurdity, such as a goat-demon conducting psychotherapy sessions; the compelling premise involving a team investigating supernatural occurrences within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; and the show's ability to balance earnest spiritual drama with goofiness, leading to moments of genuine intellectual insight.

In the article, the author discusses the alleged move by conservative intellectuals to advance Trumpism and an illiberal political project to oppose liberal and constitutional democracy in the U.S. Also cited are the scheduled 2nd National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Orlando, Florida in November 2021 to show support to former President Donald Trump, the Republican attacks on critical race theory, and the NatCon movement being organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation.

The article discusses education intellectual Diane Ravitch. The author of several books, Ravitch for much of her career has been a leading proponent of charter schools, school vouchers, school choice, and other educational policies often championed by political conservatives. By 2007, though, she had begun distancing herself from many of her earlier views. She now maintains that school vouchers do little good and that the No Child Left Behind Act signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush is flawed.

This article discusses myths of Jewish intellectual superiority. While the author's findings are inconclusive, an examination of genetics and the passing down of genetic traits is presented. The author notes that if there can be diseases that are more prevalent among certain groups of people, then intelligence may also be an inherited trait.

Compares the composition of the members of the cabinet and government advisers of the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Clinton's selection of public officers on the basis of intellectual criteria; Reflection of a return to country-club elitism and populism in the Bush Administration; Influence of the book "The Work of Nations" on the meritocracy ideology of the Clinton Administration; Problems faced by the Clinton Administration in the use of intellectuals and meritocrats in the creation of a health care policy; Advantages of the flexibility of the Clinton Administration in the development of economic policy.

Presents the author's opinion that anti-intellectualism is a dominant factor in the presidential campaign for 2000. Opinion that U.S. President George W. Bush's strategy is to look like an average, uninformed person; Use of knowledge of U.S. vice president Albert Gore against him; Information on the publishing of the campaign book "Putting People First"; Role of the news media in the campaign.

Describes the dispute between neoconservative and theoconservative intellectuals over question of what constitute moral conservatism and a moral society in the U.S. Political doctrines espoused by neoconservatives and theoconservatives; U.S. court cases that form the foundation of theoconservatives' assertion that the judiciary has usurped power and assaulted the values of its host society; Core beliefs of neoconservatism and Catholic conservatism on the nature of the U.S.; Claim that theologian Germain Grisez developed a comprehensive natural law theory in opposition to modernity.

Comments on the role of intellectuals in the political and economic spheres of the U.S. Question of the so-called responsibility of the intellectual; Fact that there has existed a comparatively numerous category of people who are no longer mediators in the old sense, but who deal with the substance of mediation itself; Emergence of a class of people who utilized the word as working material; Perception that the intellectuals are agents in the marvelous process of self-accumulation; Fact that the entire history of the anarchistic movement reflects a suspicion, even a hatred, of intellectuals.

Focuses on the life and works of intellectual James Burnham in Kent, Connecticut. Information regarding the educational background of Burnham; Information regarding the career experience of Burnham; Importance of Burnham in the definition of modern American conservatism; Information regarding the books "The Managerial Revolution," and "The Machiavellians," written by Burnham which described a world divided between managerial and capitalist states.

Discusses the political aspect of intellectualism in the U.S. Outline of an intellectual image of political candidates; Skepticism about the pretensions of intellectuals in politics; Background on the history and growth of Washington intellectuals; Mention of various developments that symbolize the shift in the center of American intellectual life from New York to Washington; Deduction that the crusade of the conservative intellectuals was invested with a moral and populist aura.

Profiles Italian intellectual and writer, Nicola Chiaromonte. Life of Nicola in New York; Views of Nicola on Marxism; Family background of Nicola; Observation that Nicola had placed European thought and European politics above American thinking and American politics; Reference to Nicola's book "The Paradox of History: Stendhal,Tolstoy, Pasternak and Others."

Discusses significant events that shaped the 70-year history of this liberal American periodical. Date when the magazine was founded; Historical events that contributed to the birth of the periodical; Issues discussed in the periodical; Regular columns in the magazine; Dilemmas of liberalism; Founding editors of the periodical; Preliminary sketches for the first cover of the magazine; Commitment to culture; Welfare state and public good; Wars; Fate of the Jews; Anticommunist liberalism; Drift of the intellectuals; Dilemma of liberal foreign policy.

Focuses on Time Magazine editor Whittaker Chambers, who enjoys a vigorous life in the political mind of the U.S. Acceptance of Medal of Honor, the nation's highest civilian award; Effect of Chambers' autobiography on U.S. President Ronald Reagan; Opinion that Chambers' story represents a generation's disenchantment with statism and its return to eternal truths and fundamental values; View Chambers as a man of considerable political and intellectual sophistication.

Focuses on the convict Jack Henry Abbott, a soon-to-be-paroled convict living in a halfway house, who disappeared from New York City. Information that far from being an ordinary criminal, Abbott was the newest of the New York literary establishment; Information that he spent his years of incarceration educating himself through reading with the help of his sister and a friendly bookstore, he supplied himself with the classics of Western civilization; Information that apparently it was Abbott's moral and intellectual superiority to his venal captors that enabled him to survive their tortures.

Presents an interview of the novelist George Konrád, author of "The Case Worker," and "The City Builders," who spent several months in New York in late 1978, putting the finishing touches on his newest novel "The Loser." Reasons for the arrest of Konrád; Objectionable statements written by Konrád in his essay about East European societies; Change in his views about East and West after having spent two years in the West; Concerns of Konrád whether he should return to Hungary or not; Storyline of his novel "The Loser"; Comments of Konrád on politics in Eastern Europe.

Presents an insight into the profile of American detective novelists Richard Lockridge. Statement that he complements the intellectual appeal of the puzzle in a detective story with the velocity and romance of an adventure story and the adroit characterization of a novel of manners; Reference to Lockridge's stories as old-fashioned; Discussion on his book "Mr. and Mrs. North."

Features William Kristol, founder of Project for Republican Future and conservative intellectual in the U.S. Promise of Kristol to intellectually rejuvenate a principled conservative activism; Background of Kristol; Reputation of Kristol among politicians in the U.S.; Details on his political and social views.

Addresses the changes among labor unions in the U.S., as of May 1994. Strategy implemented by Justice for Janitors which seeks contracts with building owners regardless of the service they hired to do their cleaning; Support received by unions from liberal and left-wing intellectuals; Problem on the business hostility to unions.

Reflects on the attempts of scholars to understand and interpret the traditions of India. Authors' account of their experiences of Indian docility; Dissimilarity of perceptions in Western understanding of India; Movement within the country to project itself more in Hindu religious terms; Political history of the country; Three distinct categories of attempts outside India to understand and interpret the country's traditions; Effects of these approaches in shaping the understanding of Indian intellectual traditions.

Pays tribute to Richard Henry Tawney, an English author who died in 1962. Background in the English intellectual classes; Belief of Tawney that but history was not wholly a realm of fact but a realm of value as well; Remark of E.M. Forster on Tawney in the book "Howard's End"; Family and educational background of Tawney; Information on the books by Tawney.

Focuses on Arthur Schlesinger, an intellectual and his views on U.S. President Jimmy Carter. View that his political isolation has been increasing for a long time, and seems likely to continue unless and until Senator Edward M. Kennedy makes a move; Information on his book "The Age of Jackson" that won him the Pulitzer Prize; Political career of Schlesinger; View that his greatest legacy probably will be the multi-volume book "The Age of Roosevelt"; His view on Carter's human rights stand and tougher line towards Israel; View that Schlesinger's hatred of dogma, occasionally forced and dogmatic, is based on the right instincts, and he generally has been a good influence.

Discusses moral issues in the U.S. associated with football. Search for a moral equivalent to war; Views of intellectuals on football; Comparison between war and football; Report that football also reflects the American preoccupation with time and its organization; View that football represents the true and not the ideal American character.

Presents information related to several literary works of Thornstein Veblen, a social theorist. Discussion of several books written on Thornstein; Analysis of modern industrial society by Veblen; Veblen's reputation after the World War II; Comment on the social theory written by Veblen; Veblen's Darwinian approach to history; Assessment of Veblen's thought in the light of the liberal tradition by intellectual historians like Daniel Aaron; Observation by Veblen on the tendency of emulation.

The article comments on union bureaucracy. A small number of intellectuals who for personal and ideological reasons attached themselves to labor organizations, mainly during the 1930's, were about as close as most unions came to having professional bureaucrats. In recent years the staffs of all but the poorest or most stable unions have grown substantially. There are specialists in such professional capacities as research, education, publications, public relations and legal affairs. The position of an idealist is often a touchy one, for ferment must be created through, or at least with the aid of, the men of power, the elected officialdom.

Focuses on the discussion in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the issue of religion in education. Conflict between the U.S. Puritan heritage and religious obscurantism and divisiveness; Desire of the intellectuals in Harvard to move religion into a formally dogmatic or obscurantist type which they can classify; Attitude of the intellectuals towards Protestantism which is sophisticated about religious language and symbols; Threat posed by the intellectual forces to the academic liberalism with its values of objectivity and dispassionateness; Controversy over conducting private services, weddings and funerals, at Harvard's Memorial Church.

Focuses on the contribution of intellectuals in Democratic politics. Opinion that the Democratic Party in the 1920's was a dreary alliance of Northern city bosses and Southern Bourbons; Remark that majority of the Democratic Senators are not intellectuals; Focus on New Deal intellectuals who dabbled and squabbled, and even connived, with respect to the choice of candidates for Governor, Senator, and even the President; Illustrations of shortfall of creative liberalism in U.S.; Idea that foreign economic policy should be the dominant concern of American liberalism today; Comment on the high rate of economic growth; Criticism to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith's new book "The Affluent Society."

In this article, the author discusses his interaction with Soviet intellectuals. The Soviets have started to publish a literary review devoted to translations from foreign languages; and I met several times with members of their editorial boards. These people all know English. Some of them are translators; others poets; novelists and some critics and scholars. They asked for names of young writers in the various literary genres, wrote them down, asked which works in particular I thought ought to be translated, and which of them would interest a Russian public.

Analyzes the relations between U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and the intellectual community and examines the role of truth and power in the separation of the intellectual from the politician. Actions taken by the president to establish closer ties with the intellectual community; Distinctions and connections between intellectuals and politicians; Ways by which the intellectual can respond to the potential interconnectedness between the intellectual and the political world; Basic philosophic defect that determines the president's attitude toward the intellectuals.

Focuses on the unique, indispensable and capital function of universities in the intellectual and spiritual life of modern society. Claim that the vocation of the scholar is to seek the truth; Most revolutionary of all the intellectual achievements of the modern age; Concern of a liberal education on the royal science that needs to be possessed by the rulers of the state; Existence of a spiritual and intellectual vacuum of discipline and guidance that can be filled only by the universal company of scholars, supported and protected and encouraged by their universities.

Claims that the anti-communist hysteria of John Birch Society has failed to provide the moral and political distinction between liberals and conservatives campaigned by the right-wing intelligentsia through its periodical "National Review." Suggestion that the society and the "National Review" have the same concept of communism; List of social and economic legislation identified by society founder Robert Welch Jr. as precursor to a communist take-over; Criticism against the application of the word communist to former Republican U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and Republican leader John Foster Dulles.

Discusses need for embodying innate sense of directive orientation of human society in developing a social concept in the United States. Effect of higher discrepancy between social accomplishment and the mounting sum of intellectual inheritance than actual realization of the U.S. public; Reluctance of the public to understand their share of work in the society; Necessity for people to present a virgin attitude towards the problem of living together in a group; Importance of finding a social concept in all social patterns such as racial subconsciousness of the U.S. people for developing the new social concept; Requirement to discover the deeper seated realities governing the movements of human life in order to attain the new social concept; Lack of adequate concepts of items of the life scheme behind failure to develop the social concept.

Comments on developments concerning social, political and economic issues of interest to the U.S. Admission of Germany in the League of the Nations; Conditions of intellectuals in Russia; Appointment of naval board to investigate the actions of U.S. Marines in Haiti.

Discusses the assertion about the struggle for the establishment in Russia of a stable government through the means of an All-Russian Constituent Assembly. Representation of nationally thinking people; Contradiction to the principles and the traditions of the Russian intellectuals; Duty of the Russian intellectuals neither to expose their domestic affairs to the world nor to discredit the free and independent press; Kind of falsification of American public opinion.

This article compares the postwar moral and intellectual worlds of 1923 and 1950. The opening piece is a general summing-up of the two eras, the other two sections deal with writers active in Europe and in the United States during years under view. Finally the article deals with essays and reviews which contribute in one way or another to the social and cultural balance. In 1923 everyone was conscious of being "postwar" this war was the World War. Once it had been the War to End War and even after five years no one supposed that it would have a rival.

Traces the history of Russian people and views of the American public towards them. Views of the author about communists; Attitude of the American people towards communists in the Soviet Union; Aspects of Russian history as understood by the people of the U.S.; Reaction of the Russian people to impulses; Period during which Russian society had maximum exposure to Western influence; Impact of the western civilization on the Soviet Union; Consideration of Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century as the greatest of all critics of contemporary Western civilization; Attitude of Russian intellectuals towards western culture; Failure of liberal development in the Soviet Union to improve socio-economic conditions of the Soviet Union; Causes of the collapse of Russian liberalism as a political movement; Impact of the Russian Revolution on its economy;Features of concentration camps system used in Kremlin; Contribution of the contemporary Russian public, in the fields of art and literature.

Focuses on Samuel Gompers, former president of the American Federation of Labor. Effort of the American Federation of Labor to celebrate Gompers Centennial to identify itself as a contributor to the democracy; Contribution of Gompers to the establishment of the American Federation of Labor for wage earners; Statement that according to Gompers, organized labor was justified in going into politics if it did so to protect its legal right to organize, to strike, and to operate effectively on the industrial front; Argument that labor needs the intellectuals, to assist in elaborating programs in the economic society and to help organize the middle-class vote.

Focuses on the Conference of Scientific and Cultural Workers for World Peace meeting held at Waldorf, Maryland. Conflict between the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace and Americans for Intellectual Freedom; Issues raised by the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace; Report by the Credentials Committee on persons registered for the conference.

Informs about the life and works of U.S. critic and biographer Van Wyck Brooks. Observations of Brooks on the American literature and the future of American culture, in the book "America's Coming-of-Age"; Insistence of Brooks that artists inspire men to find salvation "from within"; Reference to few sensitive intellectuals who retained an urge to independent creative activity, in the book "The Literary Life in America."

Focuses on the development of the scientific study of history. Literary significance of scholar Giovanni Vico's work on scientific study; Principles of a new science of history; Comments of Vico on the human history; Opinion of French historian Jules Michelet on philosophical artistic world; Description about the early life of Michelet; View that Michelet's approach was entirely rational, based squarely on the philosophy of the eighteenth century--anti-clerical, democratic; Popularity of Michelet as a writer and philosopher.

Comments on the music broadcasting patterns in the U.S. with reference to broadcasting done by Floyd Neale and Olin Downes. Opinion that the broadcasters talk of many different kinds which reveals not only the level of musical understanding but the general intellectual level in broadcasting circles; Announcement taken from Columbia's Symphonic Hour; Use of a literary setting with the music by broadcasters to arouse interest; Attempts by the broadcasters to help listener to appreciate music; Information on the commentaries by Downes.

Presents some fallacies of educators. Assertion that progressive education has elaborated no theory of social welfare, unless it be that of anarchy or extreme individualism; Comment on the fallacy that man is born free; Comment on the nature of newborn children; Fallacy that the child lives in a separate world of his own; Fallacy that education is some pure and mystical essence that remains unchanged from everlasting to everlasting; Comment on the assertion that the great object of education is to produce the college professor; Discussion of the fallacy that education is primarily intellectualistic in its processes and goals; Comment on the fallacy that ignorance rather than knowledge is the way of wisdom.

Discusses the social conditions that are prevalent in the U.S. Focus on the attitude of cultivating a refined sensibility or of losing oneself in abstruse intellectual pursuits; Domination of salesmen and brokers in the U.S.; Discussion of the development of America that has taken place inside the bourgeois psychology; Comments on works by certain American authors; Discussion of American intelligentsia including scientists, philosophers, artists, and engineers.

Presents information on the return of arts and intellectuals from exile to the United States. Narrates experience of the author on his return to the U.S. View of the author that it will take three years for him to readjust in the new environment; Justification given by the author for taking a writing job; Description of the job done by the author; Information on a letter written by the author to Kenneth Burke, a literary critic; Comment on Arthur Rimbaud, a French poet.

Focuses on the development of social philosophy through the twentieth century. Attack on the abstract opinion of Reasoning Man as the basis of social philosophy; Specialization of several fields in philosophy which reached its height in the years preceding the World War I; Information that scholars who contributed to modern thought were mostly radicals; Portrayal of a man by John Stuart Mill as rational and civilized; Dissipation of the theory of rationality of man during the World War when even intellectual leaders showed an utter lack of reason and when ordinary citizens behaved like savages or children; Argument that all activities of man is centered around acquiring power for himself; Argument that Italy's attack on Ethiopia and Germany's attack on Czecho-Slovakia and Poland can be justified on this basis.

Presents a thesis on the life and works of Austrian physician & neurologist Sigmund Freud. Overview of educational and professional background of Freud; Common error that intellectuals make in the treatment of Freud through his books; Account of the characteristics of Freud; Criticism of Freud's theories on the unconscious motivation and emotional abnormalities when it comes to their aid in the enrichment of literature; Mention of exaltation of the irrational in social or political life that is often unjustly attributed to the influence of Freud.

Presents an update on various economic and political developments around the world. Comment on the conquest of German dictator Adolf Hitler of Czechoslovakia; Uncertainty associated with various aspects of the revolt in Spain; Analysis of the annual report of the U.S. Steel Corporation; Maintenance of a wide degree of independence by English newspaper "Yorkshire Post"; Contributions made to aid various Spanish intellectuals in French concentration camps.

Presents information on personality traits of social philosopher and writer Herbert Croly. Influence of humility of Croly on his life style; Intellectual qualities possessed by Croly; Ability of Croly to fight against all odds of the life; Family background of Croly; Ways used by Croly to tackle various problems of life; Literary style of Croly; Impact of political conditions of the U.S., on American life, depicted in his book "The Promise of American Life"; Professional achievements of Croly as an editor of the periodical; Support of the Progressivism of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, by Croly; Criticism of Croly for his devotion to wars; Features of political philosophy of Croly.

Examines the social thought of American philosopher and author John Dewey with particular focus on the concept of leadership. Written works which postulate the organic unity of life as emergent from chaos; His personal failure as a leader; Discussions about relations between act, consciousness and imagination; Spiritual precepts; Author's choice of Alfred Stieglitz as an American who embodies the essence of leadership.

Reveals the author's experiences in writing editorials. Role of the editorial writer; Acting as intellectual mediator for all the people; Adherence to social values; Speculative nature of the work like that of the philosopher's work; Result of self-identification with an alleged virtuous interpretation of the news; Application of scientific method to human conduct.

The article discusses the practice of Chinese intellectuals studying ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Comparisons are made between the practice of Chinese scholars studying ancient philosophers to the political discussions that occurred in Poland during the 1980s, in which ancient philosophers were discussed. The way in which intellectual liberalism has spread from Eastern Europe to other parts of the world, such as China, is mentioned. The ideals of philosopher Carl Schmitt and his objections to liberalism are studied by many intellectuals within China.