Stephen Rittenberg has a wonderful post up at Horsefeathers in which he discusses the dangers posed by “wordsmith intellectuals,” as he calls them. He draws a line from the intellectuals of the 19th Century, through Stalin/Hitler apologist H.G. Wells, right up to today’s apologists for muslim fanatics. Here are a couple of particularly trenchant passages: Our wordsmith utopians disavow their own aggression. They feel, they care, they empathize, they are