Narcissistic Public Intellectuals: Celebrity or Expertise? (Grannon-Vaknin Convo)

Public intellectuals are often more public than intellectuals. Many of them are narcissists who capitalize on their celebrity and claim to be omniscient. They transmogrify into cultish gurus.

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