David Brooks, Public Intellectual

David Brooks, Public Intellectual

I am the very model of a public intellectual,
My op-eds in the New York Times are never ineffectual,
I’m expert on all matters from political to sexual,
I am the very model of a public intellectual.

 

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago. His books include: Stone Age Economics, The Western Illusion of Human Nature and On Kings (with David Graeber).