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by dotancohen 1045 days ago
Honestly, English intellectuals are a good yardstick for how history will remember people and events. If the English intellectuals esteem someone or some event, then generally those people and events are widely considered disparaged two generations down.
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Since English intellectuals at the time included both Orwell and TS Eliot (and I suppose Tolkien and Chesterton and Aleister Crowley) is it really fair to paint them with such a broad brush?
So we know where Jim Cramer descends from ...