I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with. And I think it's dismaying how small a patch there is for public intellectuals--particularly public intellectuals of the left. I value journalistic platforms as a way of extending beyond academia. You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manqué--I come from a long line of failed actors!from Terry Eagleton: New Statesman: The Books Interview
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