“In any given period of history, a culture is to be judged by its dominant philosophy, by the prevalent trend of its intellectual life as expressed in morality, in politics, in economics, in art. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.” Ayn Rand,
For the New Intellectual
One can say with certainty that the 1960s and 1970s were a watershed moment in America and much of the Western world. Social critic Roger Kimball declared that those periods shocked “the moral and intellectual fabric of our society.”[2] Speaking of the 1960s in particular, Jack Kerouac declared that they were “apparently some kind of Dionysian movement.”[3]
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