intelligentsia

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"I think the people who live here are a somewhat different community because it’s the intelligentsia," she says, "educated people who can’t live without the arts."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024

Once identified among the intelligentsia as a “reformicon” hoping to shift a neoconservative GOP toward a pro-working-class direction, Salam had long curried liberal affection as “literary Brooklyn’s favorite conservative.”

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024

On Friday, Christopher Mathias of HuffPost released an exposé of Richard Hanania, a rising star of the right's supposed intelligentsia.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023

Not that there’s a great intelligentsia in this country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Meanwhile, at school I was quietly collecting bits of data, trying to sort out my place inside the teenage intelligentsia.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama