The new treason of the clerks. (criticism of American liberal intellectuals)

National Review | July 23, 1990| | Copyright

IN 1925 Julien Benda wrote a startling book, La Trahison des Clercs (The Treason of the Clerks), which still reverberates a warning to the French intellectual class of the treachery of abandoning its role as custodian of learning and culture; of the cost of placing its gifts at the service of a political movement-particularly one which might destroy the very values the intellectuals are supposed to defend. Benda used the word "clerk" in the medieval sense to mean the educated class.

Benda's entreaty is diametrically opposed to the course recently urged on America's ...

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