Daniel Tutt

Daniel Tutt, scholar of intellectual history and left politics, returns to probe why emancipatory organizations often calcify into elite rule. He contrasts Michels’ iron law with Rancière’s worker poets. Short takes on proletarian vs bourgeois intellectuals, organizational capture, Chile’s provisional leadership lessons, and practical guardrails like rotation, sortition, recall, and para-academic spaces.

Daniel Tutt, a scholar on intellectual history, joins to explore America's complex relationship with intellectualism. He challenges the notion of anti-intellectualism as a decline in intelligence, tracing its roots from Puritanism to contemporary professional norms. Tutt discusses how elite neutrality often conceals class origins, while radical thinkers like Lasch highlight the disconnect of the middle class. The dialogue also covers counter-publics and labor clubs that foster genuine intellectual growth among workers, advocating for a space where theory and practice coexist.