Pause | Don't trust the elites (say the new elites)

In this Break, we're going to talk about something we know exists, but isn't easy to define . It can be used as both a compliment and an insult. Let's talk about intellectuals .

Is it good or bad to call someone an intellectual ? Who are they... and what are their purposes ? Why has there always (or almost always) been a strong anti-intellectual sentiment in Spain? Are French intellectuals more intellectual than Spanish ones? Where does this inferiority complex come from? And what is happening to cultural elites in populist times? When did anti-elite sentiment start to become an electoral goldmine in the 21st century? Was it Trump? Or Brexit? Or the financial crisis? And what does Ortega y Gasset have to do with Amanece que no es poco ?

We talked about it with David Jiménez Torres , professor of History at the Complutense University of Madrid and author of The ambiguous word (Taurus, 2023) in the new episode of Pausa , the El Confidencial podcast presented and directed by Marta García Aller and which you can listen to free and openly onIvoox , Spotify and Apple Podcast .

"Everyone uses the word 'intellectual,' but no one wants to refer to themselves with it. Baroja already said it. The idea is that there's something arrogant, almost heretical, in seeking knowledge on one's own without following the traditional path," explains David Jiménez Torres.

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