“在美国,如果有一群能称之为知识分子权势集团的人,那么他们虽则不很激进,却始终是中间偏左的.”——理查德·霍夫斯塔特当霍夫斯塔特在六十年代初对美国知识分子的传统与现状进行考察时,他审慎却不含糊地提出了“权势集团”概念(见《美国生活中的反智主义》).这类集团,在他心目中,无疑 “In the United States, if there is a group of people who can call it a powerful group of intellectuals, they are not very radical, but they are always center-left.” - Richard Hofstatter, In a study of the traditions and the status quo of American intellectuals in the early 1960s, Stalter prudently but unequivocally proposed the notion of “power group” (see Anti-intellectualism in American Life). Group, in his mind, no doubt