SOONER OR LATER THE INTELLECTUALS WILL REDISCOVER THE VALUE OF COHERENT BELIEFS.

Indiana political scientist Jeffrey Isaac recognizes where their absence leads us.  "Voices of sanity, and reason, are in too short supply, and in constant danger of being drowned out by the rhetoricians of all-out war."  I mean, when Albert Camus is providing the clarity!  “When violence answers violence in a growing frenzy that makes the simple language of reason impossible, the role of the intellectual cannot be... to excuse from a distance one of the violences and condemn the other... that role is clarify definitions in order to disintoxicate minds and to calm fanaticisms, even when this is against the current tendency.”

A lengthy essay follows.  It will reward careful study.