An important question is given a humorous treatment by one of the greatest scholars and wits America has ever produced.

by Revilo P. Oliver (pictured)

Text of an address to the assembled Citizens’ Councils of America in Chattanooga on January 7, 1966. A recording of this speech is also available.

I HAVE BEEN ASKED to discuss with you tonight the grave social and biological problem presented by that noisy band of persons who currently call themselves “liberal intellectuals.” It is not a new problem. The contemporary specimens have inherited the whole of their little stock of phrases and notions, which they are pleased to call “ideas,” from . . . → Read More: Can ‘Liberals’ Be Educated?