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Has the American culture that could once generate an Edmund Wilson become incapable of generating anyone similar today? Has a fundamental habit of mind changed in American life, and is the age of critics-in-general (and readers-in-general) behind us?
The idea that some such downward development has taken place was proposed by Russell Jacoby inDissentin 1983, then was elaborated by James Adas in theNew York Times Magazineand again by Jacoby in a slightly muddled book calledThe Last Intellectuals. And from those long-ago seeds have subsequently blossomed ten thousand articles by as many authors, new articles all