The End of Progressive Intellectual Life
How the Foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left
BY
MICHAEL LIND
"The centralized and authoritarian control of American progressivism by major foundations and the nonprofits that they fund, and the large media institutions, universities, corporations, and banks that disseminate the progressive party line, has made it impossible for there to be public intellectuals on the American center-left. This is not to say that progressives are not intelligent and/or well-educated. It is merely to say that being a progressive public intellectual is no longer an option, in an era in which progressivism is anti-intellectual."
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