Ideologizer

What this often means, indeed, as once again the Australian experience illustrates, is a positive distrust of the intellectual, the ideologizer.

In fact, at the age of fifty-three, Pasolini might well have been Gore's doppelgänger, and what Italo Calvino had written about Pasolini could have applied to Vidal as well: he was “the ideologizer of eros and the eroticizer of ideology.”