Britain and the Intellectuals
Mini Teaser: A sentiment seems to have prevailed among the scribbling classes that Britain is in a general state of decline--intellectually, socially, morally. It's just not so.
1 See my "Farewell to Pudding Island", Times Literary Supplement, April 28, 2000.
Ferdinand Mount is editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Parts of this essay were delivered as a lecture to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and reprinted in the Center's series of Britannia lectures.
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