You make some good points. Most I mention in this list [1] are communists, so anti-intellectualism looks historically a feature of the left. Indeed, if what I r

You make some good points. Most I mention in this list [1] are communists, so anti-intellectualism looks historically a feature of the left. Indeed, if what I remember of Messrs Snow and Orwell applies, it's the (small C) conservative liberal who is the champion of the literary intellectual. That's what the "Tories" once represented. So in a way that's what's weird about the present day "Tory" party. They are nihilists. There's nothing there to even rally around or against except a nebulous fear of change, because they are so empty, so naked in their disgust for principles of any kind. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32384301 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=32384301