“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.