The Panic of the Intellectuals: From Ezra Pound to the Trumpagies of Today
American intellectuals always seem to believe they are living through the end times. From the fascist poet Ezra Pound in the 1930s to the historian of fascism Timothy Snyder today, they flee America in despair. In Seekers and Partisans (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/seekers-and-partisans/96336F9A005D9302B673B62C276982C9) ,, Boston University historian David Mayers (https://www.bu.edu/history/profile/david-a-mayers/) tells the story…