Sentences with phrase «liberal intellectuals»

What has liberal intellectual life accomplished in the past fifty years?

As for economic equality, that is an issue that appears to generate more concern among the party's liberal intellectual elite than among its rank - and - file.

The neoconservatives, Dorrien explains, are a group of originally liberal intellectuals who became disaffected with McGovernism.

The other scientist who met with Trump in January was Dr. David Gelernter, the computer science pioneer at Yale University also known for his conservative views and wide - ranging writing, including indictments of liberal intellectuals for allegedly tainting academia.

Katz criticizes liberal intellectuals for failing to rebut the conservatives.

It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama administration on the one hand and the mass of Tea party activists on the other.

He was a Jewish liberal intellectual in the Depression era in New York, and he was a post-Holocaust international humanist.»

It was not until the 1950s that liberal intellectuals decided that the laity's preoccupation with personal faith encouraged self - absorption at the expense of theological and social issues.

Liberal intellectuals often seem to think that historical consciousness is by definition a conservative point of view, a negation of the present.

In the following years, it become increasingly clear that the real leadership of the Party lay not with the few liberal intellectuals who had fought over the manifesto of 2007, but rather in the hands of the former communists and Christian democrats who had, strategically, devoted their attention to control of the Party's apparatus and bureaucratic machine.

The Obama campaign is headed to Dukasis / Adlai Stevenson land of wimpy liberal intellectual dems who do not understand the flyover states.

He alternately proud and embarrassed by his mum and her salesman boyfriend who are in sharp contrast to Alice's more liberal intellectual — and ultimately nude — parents (played by veteran British actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance).

The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.

That this meme of «hiding the data» is so successful is because it is an instance of the broader meme that scientists are an elite cabal of liberal intellectuals bent on controlling everybody's lives.

Harvard Law School professor and liberal intellectual icon Laurence Tribe is leaving the Department of Justice early because of symptoms related to his brain tumor.

China's detention of internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has provoked a petition urging his release, exposing growing alarm among the country's liberal intellectuals who see him as a test of how far a wave of detentions to stifle dissent could go.

Liberal intellectual life is a scam, a goof, a fraud, a hoax.

Liberal intellectuals, who in this era were less taken than they are today with the intellectual prowess of Hollywood stars, repeatedly belittled Reagan for gleaning his deepest thoughts from the scripts of B - movies.

But many of the liberal intellectual leaders, from whom resistance might have been expected, failed to provide it.

How is it possible that while the sitting president of the United States squarely opposed same - sex marriage just a few years ago, the liberal intellectuals who supported him passionately also condemn any opposition to same - sex marriage as bigotry, rooted in cultural backwardness?

Liberal intellectuals who had once applauded Auden's passionate dissection of the social traumas of the «30s now snorted that his new humorous, relaxed style was frivolous and irrelevant — hopelessly bourgeois.

Rorty calls us «the liberal Rawlsian searchers for consensus» and «the community of the liberal intellectuals of the secular modern West» (CIS 12).

Or, if we are liberal intellectuals for example, as having the features of a liberal intellectual who does not believe in the Devil.

The best part of the «joshing» comes when Rorty, who is a professor at a state university, goes on to distinguish slyly between the liberal intellectuals who are playing this game and the taxpayers, incapable of liberal ironism, who are paying them to play it.

The historical high - tide of labourism is passed; and Labour has never been able to win elections based upon working class voters alone, it has always been necessary to build a coalition with progressive professionals and managers; and with liberal intellectuals.

Decades before conservative Gov. Jeb Bush was pushing America's first statewide voucher program, liberal intellectuals were promoting the notion in The New York Times Magazine.