Mayor Bloomberg or Pres. Obama?

Mayor Bloomberg or Pres. Obama? Joseph Epstein’s essay entitled “Intellectuals, Public and Otherwise”: “Even when they have not lent their energies to promoting schemes for human betterment that depend on the mass coercion of real human beings, the intellectuals’ overdependence on ideas, and their consequent detachment from reality, have often turned them into little demons of ignorant subtlety.”