““Bertrand Russell, writing during World War I, castigates intellectuals for exactly this tendency: ‘In modern times, philosophers, professors, and intellectuals generally undertake willingly to provide their respective governments with those ingenious distortions and those subtle untruths by which it is made to appear that all good is on one side and all wickedness on the other.’ Thus ‘learned men’ seem ‘as incapable of justice as any cheap newspaper [and] as full of special pleading and garbled history’.9 Or, in other words, academia and CNN are on a par in times like these.””
