Aether’s answer is correct and insightful. I am going to lift it and use it in my undergraduate course on political economy.
Do not confuse intellectuals with the puffed up professors of law and political science at the so called “elite” universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and especially Columbia. I have presented lectures on my work in social science at all of those universities and at universities abroad. At Columbia I encountered a group think mentality that we do not have at the university where I teach and research (a state university with a strong emphasize of football and student partying). Our undergraduates want to get a degree and get a good job and are not part of some social and political elite except at the state level for some.
I looked up Bobbitt. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas Law School, a second rate regional law school. He is NOT a professor. That may indicate that he is better than I think he is but I doubt it.
The problems with our research universities are more complicated than the critics on the right realize. Most issues in life are too complicated to be described by simple theories.
True intellectuals exist in our society but many of them are not university professors.