During late modernism, Cork opposed the practice of intellectual elitism derived from formalist abstraction.

I'm disappointed that you allowed Christopher Caldwell (Feb. 25) to score points in an argument that smacks of intellectual elitism by quoting Charles Murray without mentioning his background.

Mr. Steiner might well be accused of intellectual elitism.

The return to Yale should have been a triumph for the president, as he put aside old irritations against the school's intellectual elitism.

After the outbreak of war, with the group accused of "intellectual elitism its reputation faltered in the 1940s and 1950s, but from the 1960s critical interest in their achievements began to revive".

He eagerly endorses the spiritual and intellectual elitism traditionally sponsored by Gnosticism; his personal mission is to "purify" degenerate spirituality by returning to incorruptible ancient wisdom.

At some point between his graduation and his rise in Texas politics, Mr. Bush had begun to cast Yale as a symbol of a kind of intellectual elitism that he could not abide.

But its flashy luxury still sets it outside of the early modern movement, which was dominated by a spartan, intellectual elitism.

Mr. Lipman's tastes were a mixture of conservative populism and intellectual elitism.

But I hate intellectual elitism.