Sentences with phrase «mainstream public intellectuals»

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».

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Although included in Richard Posner's recent list of six hundred prominent public intellectuals, Illich has lost almost all of the stature that once led the New York Review of Books, and even some mainstream publications like the Saturday Review, to treat him as a modern - day oracle.

The pretext for this fire - sale of the public sector is the intellectual and / or politically - motivated confusion in mainstream economics of financially - constrained local, regional, and Euro - Zone nations that do not control their currencies and the governments of countries like the US, Great Britain, Japan and many others that issue their own currencies.

This view was shared by one of the few academic public intellectuals in the field, Professor Jon Altman of the Australian National University, who relayed some of the challenges of engaging in mainstream media debates.