egghead

A professor who refused to be an ivory tower egghead, Brustein didn’t simply respond to the art of his day but helped shape it.

So ATN brings out its sneering alt-rightist, Mark Ravenhead, to insinuate that the fire was a false flag, while Tom suggests booking an egghead historian to tell viewers that everything is fine and normal.

Let’s just leave our electrons to the scientific engineers, the watt-counters and the eggheads … and lock the social engineers and politicians in a cold, dark room.

Bump is a columnist for The Washington Post with a 1950s egghead vibe who writes an appealing newsletter called How to Read This Chart.

One recalls Adlai Stevenson, the 1952 presidential candidate who was famously derided as an “egghead.”