By F.A. Hayek [Reprinted from The University of Chicago Law Review (Spring 1949), pp. 417-420, 421-423, 425-433; George B. de Huszar ed., The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait (Glencoe, Illinois: the Free Press, 1960) pp. 371-84.] In all democratic countries, in the United States even more than elsewhere, a strong belief prevails that the influence of the intellectuals on politics […]