He contends that the liberalising agenda promoted by such writers is itself part of the wider campaign of «an increasingly left - wing intellectual class» to denigrate Catholicism and indeed Christianity itself. (faith.org.uk)
A section of the American intellectual class did not understand the works; only a few did, among them the painter Paul Thek. (apollo-magazine.com)
Yet, more cleverly exposed are the ways the intellectual class, in processing the tale and its history through the standard academic apparatus, fosters the advent of the next authoritarian regime by its naïve belief in its own objectivity and its refusal to judge Gilead's practices. (religion-online.org)