Sentences with phrase «as public intellectuals»

It needs to be broad enough to encompass such persons as public intellectuals, prominent business people, and NGO leaders, subject always to their capacity to wield discursive power.

Nisbet opens the paper by introducing a broad framework for understanding the influence and career trajectory of journalists as public intellectuals; focusing on their training, style, celebrity, branding, and ability to frame complex problems.

Since Thiel's credibility as a public intellectual is built in part on the presumed validation imparted by his financial success, the financial crisis of 2008 posed a threat to everything he had created.

This is why in the sixties, at the end of his long, distinguished career as a public intellectual» the last professional theologian to be such» the New Left ignored him and the neoconservatives embraced him.

Very little has surprised me more, in my years as a public intellectual, than how often I get collared on the street by some desperate pedestrian demanding an answer to this most fundamental question.

Through his books and his many newspaper and magazine commentaries, Dawkins has leveraged his popularity and critical acclaim onto an entirely new plane of celebrity as a public intellectual.

Dawkins's brief as a public intellectual has extended far beyond such politics.

«I started thinking about the president as a public intellectual, someone who sticks a stake in the ground and says this is what an institution should be.»

The theme selected by President Karen Embry - Jenlink was Re-Imagining Educator Preparation In A Democracy: The Teacher Educator as Public Intellectual.

The legendary female chimpanzee of the Planet of the Apes films resumes her life as a public intellectual after more than twenty years of seclusion in remote circuses and primate study labs.

In speaking with him more recently about the evolution of his work — and in particular his project, The Field School — I have also discovered a gentle but tenacious practitioner, one who beautifully embodies Carol Becker's notion of the artist as public intellectual.

Not exact matches

Hoffman had aspired to become a public intellectual, by writing books and essays as a philosophy professor, but now he was tweaking his plan.

The library contained fishery reports on the decline of sturgeon fishing in Lake Winnipeg from the 1890s, said Ayles, and served as invaluable intellectual capital for public researchers at the Freshwater Institute and world famous Experimental Lakes Area.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

One of the major obstacles they must overcome is the seemingly negative perception the public has of Stéphane Dion; they're attempting to do this by asserting him as a decisive and strong political leader, and by showcasing him as an «average citizen,» rather than a politician who has been regarded as a somewhat - distant intellectual.

He analyzes institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical sector, regulatory capture of public institutions, innovation policies and intellectual property in the knowledge - based economy, as well as comparative regimes of health insurance and pharmacare.

Nat privileged me by asking me to introduce him at that event, where I lauded him as «a superb writer and first - class public intellectual,... a man of consistent, steadfast principle; a moral purist in an age of hand - wringing accommodationists.»

As anyone in publishing could testify, it was not an immediately obvious or intuitive combination: Newsletters were big business in those pre-Internet days, and public - intellectual journals held an important position in national discourse.

It offers established scholars the opportunity to come to New York and work with First Things editors to develop their voices as influential public intellectuals.

His annual public lectures, one in commemoration of his father and another a «repentance homily» delivered in the week preceding Yom Kippur, were intricately crafted, four - hour affairs with audiences upwards of one thousand, and served for several decades as cornerstones of the Jewish intellectual calendar.

The ethical and emotional crises that we experience today in relation to the thresholds of birth and death, the uncertainty as to where «personal» value may be located and anchored, and the resultant confusion in the realm of public policy and law are symptoms of the fundamental intellectual crisis of modern humanity.

Intellectuals as such have no particular responsibility to take time away from what they know best to immerse themselves in the intricacies of political life and thought, but absent such immersion they would do well not to give public utterance to their ignorance.

ambitious book in the past twelve months, Judge Posner ransacks what must be an impressive file of clippings to support his charge that those who are called public intellectuals, and academics who moonlight as such, are frequently irresponsible.

These are not the problems that occur to thoughtful people, even intellectuals, generally, as they contemplate both the public issues of the day and how to order their own lives in relation to the increasingly confusing world.

Many African - American leaders and self - styled public intellectuals have been too soft on the pathogenic dynamics that have taken root as a result of racism.

There was no climactic change of direction such as Karl Barth's, but he moved in response to intellectual inquiries and public events.

Bill Bradley and John McCain, politicians Miller admires, are quoted on the dust jacket endorsing his approach, as are public intellectuals ranging from left to right — Paul Krugman, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Gergen and David Brooks.

Also appearing in the most recent PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE is a most relevant and insightful article by one of our country's most distinguished public intellectuals, Irving Louis Horowitz: «Legalism as an Executive Ideology: Foundations of Barack Obama's Leadership....

These days, there are no Christians with currency as intellectuals, which is to say as articulate public voices who interpret present political and cultural trends for a broad, educated audience.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

If theology is to regain its status as a significant intellectual and practical activity within the church, the university and our broader cultural and public life, then seminaries and divinity schools will have to give renewed attention to this venerable but threatened discipline.

And this played a key role in Richard's life and career as a priest and a public intellectual, for his constant contact with Jews went hand in....

Meanwhile, the shrill tones of public intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists have dominated the conversation from the secular side.

For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.

Sometimes our public voice sounds as if «dogma» tells us where we dare not go, not jumping off points for wonder and intellectual speculation.

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Our Mission: To improve the business climate for members by playing a proactive role with the legislative process, public safety entities and the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, as well as implement innovative and useful membership services to promote the moral, social and intellectual advancement of members of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association.

Every facet of Barton seems to be contentious, whether it be his intellectual, public persona whereby he quotes philosophers on Twitter and appears on Question Time or his on - field persona where he seen as a tough tackling but at times psychotic ankle smashing bruiser.

Judt even attacks mainstream public intellectuals in America: he dismisses unapologetically David Brooks as ignorant — «he knows nothing» — and Thomas Friedman as nothing but a social networker — his idea of expertise is «the notion of access to something special».

Judt proffers the public intellectual as a creature of the nation, operating most effectively within a middle register of action, facing great difficulty sparking anything resembling a global conversation.

A professor of European History at New York University (NYU), founder and director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and public intellectual, Judt's plan for his next book mothballed, as personal history intervened in the form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Even our brightest public intellectuals such as Ulrich Beck or Thomas Piketty are unable to give a satisfactory answer to our one billion bitcoin question.

We were denounced as the «No - men of England» in a Scotsman splash by Neal Ascherson, the well - known Scots public intellectual.

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

The function of «public intellectuals» is often characterised puzzlingly as an attempt to suture the closed, cloistral athenaeum with the «real world».

Those intellectuals present themselves to the public as neutrals while doing bindings of their preferred political parties are a disgrace to the very term intellectualism.

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.

What would now be good to see from governments is more explanation to their citizens of how the tax system actually works, so the public can makes up its mind with all the facts, such as that corporation tax is paid on profits and not sales and it is legitimate for a subsidiary to pay for the use of intellectual property owned by another group company.

Tory strategists» search for a «big idea» before the general election seized on the Big Society as a way of providing an intellectual link between the Conservative priorities of boosting social action, public service reform and community empowerment.

A consummate public servant and intellectual, he started his working career as a lecturer with the then University of Sokoto now known as Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, before joining the Kaduna State Civil Service.