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Mr Johnson says he has only set down established facts. What has resulted is, if I may coin phrase with an all too modest cough, 'don't judge an intellectual by his thoughts alone'

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
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Intellectuals by Paul Johnson

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Six years ago, I found myself in a Korean yoga ashram deep in some Korean hills. The guru there, a Korean lady, is my wife’s friend. We spent three full days there doing nothing much, not even yoga. Even though it was early April it was still very cold. So I spent virtually all my time in the library which, apart from being well-heated, was also surprisingly well stocked in books in English. 

One of those books was the controversial Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, a former editor of the New Statesman. It was first published in 1988. 

I was hooked by the
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