Intellectuals Incorporated POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights Baran-Paul M

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Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared

“Maybe God needs a way to reach overeducated agnostics and that’s what I stumbled into

and yet he remains largely unnoticed by most of the academic world

Intellectuals Incorporated POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights Baran-Paul MPublishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy publications. Republican Luce aimed squarely for the Middle American masses, yet his magazines attracted intellectually and politically ambitious minds who were moved by the democratic aspirations of the New Deal and the left. Much of the best work of intellectuals such as James Agee, Archibald