However, few Western intellectuals read the essay in its entirety.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
During the same period some Western intellectuals turned against the very idea of God.
And those who mobilised against fascism before most others, and most passionately, were western intellectuals.
Romney lists some of the usual suspects, including multiculturalism (a "fraud") and "the self-loathing of Western intellectuals" (an odd expression, since all the Western intellectuals I know think rather well of themselves).
The Topic: Western intellectuals have admired Fyodor Dostoyevsky's work for its keen psychological insights and its investigation of existential dilemmas.
The West, Sartre and his friends believed, could not criticize communism because Western intellectuals were distorted by bourgeois capitalist thinking.
Consequently, in the 21st century, history will unfold in the exact opposite direction of what Western intellectuals anticipated in 1991.
Yet there has long been such a chasm between Western intellectuals and their counterparts in formerly subordinate countries, an incompatibility of historical memories.
Although most of the Bandung leaders were sloganeering despots in their own countries, the movement captivated the imagination of many guilt-ridden Western intellectuals.
In the 1960s and 1970s some Western intellectuals, smitten with China fever, were persuaded that Mao Zedong had achieved an egalitarian society.
