Seven decades ago, Friedrich Hayek (1949) published an incendiary essay titled “The Intellectuals and Socialism,” where he defined modern intellectuals as mere “second-hand dealers of ideas.” Intellectuals for Hayek were not so much renowned experts in specialized disciplinary fields as learned and politically-committed people who turned their cultural authority into “organs” for the interpretation and translation of dominant ideas and knowledge to the great masses. Almost a Gramscian, but contradicting Gramsci’s diagnosis, Hayek complained that, for decades, only the cultured of socialist persuasion had assumed, militantly, an active role as organic intellectuals. Only the socialist intellectuals, Hayek argued, “have offered anything like an explicit program of social development, a picture of the future society at which they were aiming, and a set of general principles to guide decisions on particular issues” (428). Hayek closed his essay with a harangue, a call on the liberals to fight for cultural hegemony. Urgent for Hayek was the reconstruction of “a liberal Utopia”: a program of “truly liberal radicalism” which “appeals to the imagination” and “does not confine itself to what appears today as politically possible” (432). And critical to this project were “intellectual leaders who are willing to work for an ideal, however small may be the prospects of its early realization” (432).