Sentences with phrase «class public intellectual»

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.»

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Class analysis has been not only been ignored but also condemned in the United States, both by the general public and even by many intellectuals.

Limiting himself to 11 of the New York Public Library's 92 branches, and returning continually to its fabled flagship building on Fifth Avenue opposite East 41st Street, Wiseman sifts through lectures, classes, Q&A s, policy meetings, tutoring sessions and stage performances to build a mighty case for the library as the city's social and intellectual lifeblood.

A few years» experience with these programs generated a vigorous public reaction, mainly from middle - class parents anxious about the intellectual vacuity of the new programs and the implications for the future of their children.

The History of Perception was first incubated during a class visit to the Smart's study room and is one of several concurrent exhibitions that showcase the ways in which the Smart Museum engages with and shares the intellectual life of the University with the broader public.

The Buckminster Fuller class, taught this Spring, is something of a passion project for Pandit, who sees him as changing the role of the public intellectual in the U.S. who, «speaks to the spirit of collaboration,» linking engineering, art and architecture.

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.

In Kennedy and Ho's study, of the nine syllabi that included readings on climate change from at least one of the public intellectuals in Nisbet's typology, only one class included readings from all three categories of public intellectuals, while two thirds of the syllabi featured readings from only one category.

There are many public intellectual debates occurring over scientific and skeptical issues — the place of creationism vs evolution in public science classes, the including of alternative medicine in academic curricula, the validity of debate on global warming, etc..

James Gotowiec's practice focuses on civil litigation in a variety of areas, including corporate / commercial disputes, competition litigation, intellectual property, class actions and public law.