Sentences with phrase «many public intellectual»

The Globe and Mail once called Gutsche an «oracle,» and he has all the hallmarks of a public intellectual.

«I realized,» he says in an interview, «that if you generalized what a public intellectual does to [creating] media objects» — i.e., not just books and essays — «then one could possibly create software companies that had public intellectual impact.»

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

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.

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Both Friedman (on the right) and Galbraith (on the left) were once leading public intellectuals and economists.

That's how the extrordinary writer - and - activist Arundhati Roy, one of the world's leading public intellectuals, describes contemporary capitalism in -LSB-...]

The words of a public intellectual can express my sentiments much more eloquently and concisely than myself.

And a small group of very distinguished inside - the - beltway public intellectuals contacted me....

Here he takes two prominent conservative public intellectuals — Peter Wehner and Arthur Brooks — to the woodshed for the unfortunate lacunae in their new book, Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism.

Here he takes two prominent conservative public intellectuals — Peter Wehner and Arthur Brooks — to the woodshed for the....

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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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.

More than a mere historian, Le Goff was a strongly pro-European public intellectual whose historiography helped support the formation of the European Union.

With his impressive head of silver hair, round spectacles and well - tailored suit, Grayling looks every inch the public intellectual that the blurb on the back his latest book The God Argument (Bloomsbury) describes.

Peter Berger, who died on June 27 at age eighty - eight, ranked among the most distinguished sociological thinkers and public intellectuals of the past half century.

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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This is undoubtedly the most balanced collection of essays by the leading public intellectuals in our debate over the implications of the coming biotechnological age.

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.

Indeed, he understands the country better than many American academics do and has some illuminating comments to make about American religion: «Although the European media chooses to ignore it, the US has an extraordinary range of religious public intellectuals....

Democracy for him requires the dogged and sustained vigilance and effort of public intellectuals and people of conscience.

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.

It does not feel quite right to use the term with political leaders, or especially military heroes, although it works okay with some «public intellectuals.»

A political theorist and public intellectual dedicated to reaching beyond his parochial perspective to comprehend people in faraway cultures and distant historical epochs, Walzer all but excludes from his purview conservatives and conservatism in the here and now.

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....

This harmonization begins when intellectual leaders — «public intellectuals,» we would say today — imaginatively project a set of ideals to which diverse groups of a society can resonate.

He was uninterested in being a public intellectual.

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.

Haldane, a Scot who teaches philosophy at St. Andrews, is a prominent public intellectual in Britain.

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.

But it is hard not to wonder what might have happened if he had stuck with Tate and Fergusson, and chosen to be more the man of letters and less the public intellectual.

Kramer rejects the label of «public intellectual» that has been pinned on Wilson, because it subordinates «literature to the interests of politics and the adumbration of social policy.»

The Italian public intellectual Gianni Vattimo is one of the best apologists for this «end of history» consensus.

In his last years, he had become, like Muggeridge, at once entertainer and public intellectual — like Muggeridge, the «ringmaster at the circus of his own self - promotion.»

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.

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from Humanity: Disgust,....

More and more Chinese public intellectuals say that only Christianity can provide a solid foundation for the rule of law in China.»

Still, this much is true: From the moment Scooter Libby was indicted, all the way down to this moment of his sentencing, I have judged the character of many acquaintances in the worlds of writers, public intellectuals, and conservative politicians ¯ their courage and their trustworthiness ¯ by a simple measure: whether or not they stood up for Scooter Libby.

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.

He specializes in the study of iconoclasts and rebels, including the controversial writer and public intellectual Rebecca West.

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».

Of great interest to many readers is the chapter on Judt's transformation into a public intellectual, shortly after his arrival in New York.

The book's intellectual range is, tout court, stunning, if occasionally overwhelming: Fascism and Communism, Zionism and nationalism, identity politics and cultural studies, psychoanalysis, current affairs, the role of the historian and the public intellectual.

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.

Regular readers needn't you worry your pretty little heads about Epolitics.com, though, since NMS is all in favor of employees having public intellectual and creative lives, and they actively encourage blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, et al..

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.