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Michael Brown

College of Liberal Arts

Michael Brown’s scholarship focuses on the relationships between intellectuals and publics in American political culture. While Americans have looked upon intellectuals with hope, as sources of crucial knowledge and wisdom, they have also met them with scorn, as an “out-of-touch” and potentially anti-democratic elite. Michael’s book, Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, October 2020) examines this fraught role of intellectuals in American democracy since World War Two.

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