Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alcove 1 at the City College of New York is surely the most famous lunch table in American intellectual history. No Ivy League ...

Is there anything new to say about intellectuals? Thomas Sowell, the conservative economist and writer who hangs his hat at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, gives it a shot. Sowell is a rare ...

Sociologist C. Wright Mills (left), author of the The Power Elite and other books, was a leading labor intellectual in the 1950s. He died in 1962. Samuel Gompers and others such as economist John R.

Logically, Donald Trump should have less support among intellectuals than he had a year ago. That’s because over the past year, he has made statements that expose him as both ignorant of public policy ...

“IF I had learned education,” old Cornelius Vanderbilt once said, “I would not have had time to learn anything else.” That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump military leaders Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The ...

Partisan liberals might consider it an oxymoron, but there is such a thing as a conservative intellectual. Indeed, I used to be one. Though I've moved away from the right since those days, I maintain ...

As a former conservative, I've found an awful lot to be amused by in the unexpected rise of Donald Trump. But nothing has inspired quite as much delight as reading the sputtering denunciations of the ...