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Index
Title Page
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I - INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 - Intellect and Intellectuals
INTELLIGENCE VERSUS INTELLECT
IDEAS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Chapter 2 - Knowledge and Notions
COMPETING CONCEPTS OF KNOWLEDGE
THE ROLE OF REASON
PART II - INTELLECTUALS AND ECONOMICS
Chapter 3 - “Income Distribution”
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
MORAL CONSIDERATIONS
THE POOR AS CONSUMERS
Chapter 4 - Economic Systems
CHAOS VERSUS COMPETITION
ZERO-SUM ECONOMICS
Chapter 5 - Government and the Economy
BUSINESS
RECESSIONS AND DEPRESSIONS
PART III - INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIAL VISIONS
Chapter 6 - A Conflict of Visions
OPPOSING SOCIAL VISIONS
THE LEFT-RIGHT DICHOTOMY
YOUTH AND AGE
Chapter 7 - Abstract People in an Abstract World
DISPARITIES AND THEIR CAUSES
INTERTEMPORAL ABSTRACTIONS
EQUALITY
Chapter 8 - Arguments Without Arguments
“SIMPLISTIC” ARGUMENTS
UNWORTHY OPPONENTS
UNWORTHY ARGUMENTS
THE RHETORIC OF “RIGHTS”
“SOCIAL JUSTICE”
Chapter 9 - Patterns of the Anointed
“CHANGE” VERSUS THE STATUS QUO
ATTITUDES VERSUS PRINCIPLES
A SEALED BUBBLE
CRUSADES OF THE ANOINTED
PART IV - OPTIONAL REALITY
Chapter 10 - Filtering Reality
SELECTIVE SAMPLES
SUPPRESSING FACTS
FICTITIOUS PEOPLE
VERBAL CLEANSING
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS IMPARTIALITY
Chapter 11 - Subjective Truth
THE LOCALIZATION OF EVIL
THE INVIDIOUS AND THE DRAMATIC
PART V - INTELLECTUALS AND THE LAW
Chapter 12 - Changing the Law
METHODS OF CHANGE
Chapter 13 - Law and “Results”
BURDENS OF PROOF
PROPERTY RIGHTS
CRIME
PART VI - INTELLECTUALS AND WAR
Chapter 14 - The World Wars
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Chapter 15 - The Cold War and Beyond
REPLAYING THE 1930s
THE IRAQ WARS
PATRIOTISM AND NATIONAL HONOR
PART VII - INTELLECTUALS AND RACE
Chapter 16 - Disparities and Their Causes
GENETIC DETERMINISM
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
RESPONSES TO DISPARITIES
Chapter 17 - Race and Intelligence
HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
THE MAGNITUDES IN QUESTION
PREDICTIVE VALIDITY
ABSTRACT QUESTIONS
TEST SCORE DIFFERENCES
DURATION OF MENTAL TEST RESULTS
Chapter 18 - Liberalism and Multiculturalism
THE LIBERAL ERA
THE MULTICULTURALISM ERA
Chapter 19 - Race and Cosmic Justice
DISPARITIES VERSUS INJUSTICES
RACE AND CRIME
SLAVERY
PART VIII - AN OVERVIEW
Chapter 20 - Patterns and Visions
VALUE PREMISES
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT FACTS
INTELLECTUAL STANDARDS
Chapter 21 - Incentives and Constraints
THE SUPPLY OF PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
THE DEMAND FOR PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
Chapter 22 - The Influence of Intellectuals
THE NATURE OF INTELLECTUALS’ INFLUENCE
A COGNITIVE ELITE
INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICIANS
THE TRACK RECORD OF INTELLECTUALS
SOCIAL COHESION
ANTI-INTELLECTUAL INTELLECTUALS
IMPLICATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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