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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The XX Factor : intellectuals</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectuals/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: intellectuals</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)</generator><item><title>Is Paris Hilton the New Einstein?</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/12/08/working-title.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:4144</guid><dc:creator>Jennifer Olmstead</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/4144.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4144</wfw:commentRss><description>You probably wouldn't have known it by looking at him, but your Dunkin' Donuts clerk this morning wasn't thrumming his fingers to the latest Soulja Boy bastardization. According to John Parker's sprawling piece in the Economist 's quarterly offspring,...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/12/08/working-title.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4144" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/culture/default.aspx">culture</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/elitism/default.aspx">elitism</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectualism/default.aspx">intellectualism</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectuals/default.aspx">intellectuals</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/cultural+consumption/default.aspx">cultural consumption</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/HBO/default.aspx">HBO</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Lil+Wayne/default.aspx">Lil Wayne</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Facebook/default.aspx">Facebook</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/foucault/default.aspx">foucault</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/freaks+and+geeks/default.aspx">freaks and geeks</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Dunkin+Donuts/default.aspx">Dunkin Donuts</category></item><item><title>Rich Lowry, What Is You Thinking?</title><link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/rich-lowry-what-is-you-thinking.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:51:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3838</guid><dc:creator>Melinda Henneberger</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/comments/3838.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3838</wfw:commentRss><description>It's unbelievable that Christopher Buckley has been asked to clean out his cubby at the magazine his father founded—"briskly'' allowed to resign for the sin of endorsing Obama. Where the National Review thinks it'll find another writer who can throw around...(&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/14/rich-lowry-what-is-you-thinking.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3838" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/_2700_08+election/default.aspx">'08 election</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Christopher+Buckley+endorses+Obama/default.aspx">Christopher Buckley endorses Obama</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/Rich+Lowry/default.aspx">Rich Lowry</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/National+Review/default.aspx">National Review</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/intellectuals/default.aspx">intellectuals</category><category domain="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/tags/anti-intellectuals/default.aspx">anti-intellectuals</category></item></channel></rss>