http://jeffmacintyre.com Portfolio of Jeffrey MacIntyre Sun, 23 May 2010 19:54:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://jeffmacintyre.com/articles/aj-jacobs-the-know-it-all-national-post/ http://jeffmacintyre.com/articles/aj-jacobs-the-know-it-all-national-post/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:13:03 +0000 Jeffrey http://jeffmacintyre.com/new_wordpress_site/?p=987 Cultural observers from Allan Bloom to {Jacques Barzun} have elaborately charted the great dumbing-down of Western life. {If our public intellectuals have a single cri…

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