reading a book of brutal takedowns of left-wing intellectuals

Hello friends, it's me again. I've been reading a few good books lately. On audible, I'm listening to the book Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. The author is a conservative intellectual, and the book is essentially full of malicious but (I assume) true gossip about leftist intellectuals, beginning with Rousseau, progressing through Tolstoy, Hemingway (tho…