Taking Intellectuals Seriously

Why are so many of Europe's politically sophisticated intellectuals attracted to Communism? Last week Le Figaro's highbrow, anti-Communist Editorialist Raymond Aron offered his own wry reason: "Intellectuals want, more than anything else, to be taken seriously, and Communism is the sole party to grant them any importance--if only by putting them in prison. It is the United States which takes intellectuals the least-seriously--even while paying them fortunes."

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