From the Academy

OUR INTELLECTUAL PROLETARIAT

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Professor Seymour Harris predicted that there would develop in this country an “intellectual proletariat,” bitterly discontented and potentially revolutionary, very like the crowds of unemployed or unemployable “intellectuals,” schooled beyond their worldly prospects, that have afflicted India and many Latin American states for a long while. Dr. Harris is vindicated by the event.