Of Salesmen and Hermits: Dan Drezner’s Ideas Industry Will Strike a Note in Russia

... formal training, but with very sharp pens often serving a specific political cause. This severely devalues the weight of political science education and scholarship to the point where many experts specifically ask journalists not to refer to them as political scientists. Drezner sets out three underlying trends that are creating this new environment favorable to thought leaders and hostile to public intellectuals. First, declining trust in authority and traditional institutions of influence, above ...