From Doug Wilson’s Blog and Mablog, March 3, 2012:
Note on Intellectuals by W.H. Auden
“To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say
Is a keen observer of life,
The word Intellectual suggests straight away
A man who’s untrue to his wife.”
Fascinating. I had never thought to equate “Intellectual” and “Republican politician,” and in fact have very rarely ever thought them to be incompatible, given the GOP’s sordid moral history over the last 40 years.