Frank Says:

It does appear that there's often something about the intelligentsia that makes them especially hobbled in seeing the existence of evil intent. And I say this as a person with some experience in academic life.

Perhaps it's some combination of the rather protected lives many intellectuals lead, the insular bubble in which they live; the hegemony of multiculuralism, and postmodernism with its moral relativity; the sincere desire for the world to be at peace, and the need for psychological denial in order to believe that goal is achievable--and, unfortunately, another factor one should least expect in academics, ignorance of history.

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