Britain's large tabloid presence represents a hangover from the old class system: a wide suspicion of intellectualism and an unhealthy disregard for serious news, informed debate or educated opinion.
Among other things, Ms Jacoby blames a rising tide of anti-intellectualism.
It was a manifesto, part of a revolution that put an end to the anti-intellectualism of American finance and transformed financial markets from bull rings into today's quantitative powerhouses.
EVEN in France, a country that treasures intellectualism, the daily printed word has been dying a slow death.
The denunciation of reason and soulless modernism can devolve into crude anti-intellectualism and the glorification of "blood and soil."
We hate to burst your bubble, but the ReadWriteWeb newsroom is not the luxuriant, mahogany den of intellectualism that you envision.
It is, essentially, a rejection of Hellenic intellectualism by the sentimentalism of the North.
It avoids the intellectualism of Christian theology.