what intellectuals do.
At their best, intellectuals do more than package their research into digestible bits for policymakers or the public. They force us to think beyond the limits of the day, to ask the questions no one is asking. They are an invitation to imaginative excess and political trespass. Academic experts in the mainstream media reassure us with their authority; young intellectuals in the little magazines arrest us with their divinations.
— Corey Robin, “The responsibility of adjunct intellectuals,” Al Jazeera America, 12 March 2014.
Cover of Wolfgang Görtschacher, Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain 1939-1993.