intelligentsia

Vast segments of intelligentsia are little more than echo chamber.

His family, while Jewish, had and still have a complete worldview that only a member of the russain intelligentsia can have.

Even if one doesn't agree with him, many will based solely on the position he holds in the pantheon of liberal intelligentsia.

There is a growing contempt for the old academic intelligentsia more concerned with 'clan politics' than actual knowledge creation.

During the war it was manifested in the defeatism of the intelligentsia, which persisted long after it had become clear that the Axis powers could not win.

During the Stalin area, the intelligentsia and people with university education were basically killed off. What happens to a country when you remove most of the educated and intelligent people from the gene pool?

Within the intelligentsia, a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain is more or less compulsory, but it is an unfaked emotion in many cases.

Simply because we can imagine that there is some sort of hierarchy of intelligence and competence in a certain field does not mean that there actually is one. Every generation, no matter how ignorant, has always had a somewhat ordered list of intelligentsia.