Intellectuals . . .

The always entertaining and usually provocative David Mamet is interviewed in Sunday's NYT Magazine:

There’s an anti-intellectual flavor to your dismissal of the liberal arts, saying the only thing an M.A. in English can do is bag groceries. You don’t consider yourself an intellectual?

I don’t know. If you look at Paul Johnson’s or Thomas Sowell’s description of the term, it would be a guy who’s not aware that he doesn’t know anything.

The whole interview is a tear. It's here.