Yes, the Bush administration has paid intellectuals to echo its political priorities. What’s more surprising, actually, is all those who toe the line without being paid. Never wonder again how it is that the pharaohs were treated as gods, how Kim Il Sung and Nicholai Ceausescu got away with making monuments and billboards to themselves and forcing everyone in the country to address them by endlessly proliferating honorifics, or how the greatest despots in world history were surrounded by sycophants until their last breath. The explanation isn’t financial; it is intellectual and spiritual. [Full Article on LRC]
Shills, Paid and Unpaid
