Sentences with phrase «called public intellectuals»
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.
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The Globe and Mail once called Gutsche an «oracle,» and he has all the hallmarks of a public intellectual.
Richard and Jim had been putting out, for Rockford, a newsletter called The Religion and Society Report and a quarterly journal of scholarly and public - intellectual articles called This World» and, deprived of those entities, they decided to join the two kinds of publication into a single new magazine.
What this comes down to is encouraging teachers to become transdisciplinary public intellectuals who are engaged in what Henry Giroux has called «public pedagogy.»
After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).
Diane Ravitch, an intellectual on education policy, difficult to pigeonhole politically (appointed to public office by both G.H.W. Bush and Clinton), but best described as an independent, co-writes a blog with Deborah Meier that some of our readers may be familiar with called «Bridging Differences.»
In 1933, a classics professor named John Andrew Rice was fired from a college in Florida for seditious teaching: He called a common chisel an art object and dismissed public debates as «a pernicious form of intellectual perversion.»
As the speed and fluidity of economic, intellectual, and political exchange increases powered by the motor of globalization, the stability of a singular public has given way to the proliferation of porous publics, calling for a reassessment of the status of the contemporary museum as such.
McKibben is an example of what Nisbet calls a «knowledge journalist,» a special class of public intellectual who writes journalistically, but who unlike most of their journalistic peers specializes in the translation of complex subjects, often championing specific policy positions or causes.
To review: At first sight, Pope's article appears to be a refreshing call for intellectual honesty from the consensus climate - science camp: «Hey, why don't we try telling the public the truth, for a change, instead of all this exaggerated alarmism?»
In a highly public battle earlier this year between the Koch brothers and libertarians at the Cato Institute, some Cato employees didn't want their work to become what David Koch calls «intellectual ammunition» for other Koch fronts like Americans for Prosperity.
This scientific pie fight, characterized by juvenile name - calling, ignoble tactics, and intellectual intransigence on both sides, not only left the public confused and scared.
In 2005 and 2008, Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine called him «one of the top 100 public intellectuals», and in 2008 Esquire named him «one of the world's 75 most influential people of the 21st century.»
What started several years ago as a single podcast called Conversations in Law — a series on law, leadership and legal education — has expanded into an array of podcasts covering law and leadership, health law, public law, Native American law, dispute resolution and intellectual property.
The CLA Standing Committee on Intellectual Property and Public Access — International Trade Treaties Working Group has two documents that should be of interest to SLAWers: their report on the WTO / TRIPS agreement, which concludes that the agreement is not especially hostile to balanced domestic copyright legislation, and advises so - called «user groups» and other advocating for balance to confront claims that «international agreements» require extension of ownership domain.