A much better and more recent text on the same subject is "Mind vs. Money" by Alan S. Kahan.Hofstadter is actually part of a "panalienated self- proclaimed priesthood" that actually wish to destroy democracy in the most democratic country that has ever existed with their own incapable aristocracy. Typically disappointed liberal art type academics, the intellectuals are not actually smart or gifted (in the sense of Jefferson or Franklin) but rather crypto-priestly wanna-be's.Since Reagan and the fall of Marxism/ Communism, the anti- capatalism that actually define Hofstadter's "intellectuals" has come under hard scrutiny. Kahan details the move to the "green" movement (BTW, I personally prefer non- intellectual T Boone Pickens on the energy subject) and the new anti- Americanism the newest batch of alledged "intellectuals" promote.