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“The Intellectual as Critic and Rebel,” by Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard B. Dobson. Daedalus, Summer 1972.

In a Daedalus forum on “Intellectuals and Change,” Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard B. Dobson argue that the “historical and traditional” stance of alienation of both the American and Russian intelligentsia, resulting from “features inherent in the role and social organization of intellectual life,” threatens to undermine the capacity of postindustrial American and Soviet society to maintain a social equilibrium. The authors find the adversary role of intellectuals to be pervasive in the history of both the United States and Russia. In Ame...