Sentences with phrase «of public intellectuals»

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.
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).
Meanwhile, the shrill tones of public intellectuals such as Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists have dominated the conversation from the secular side.
Democracy for him requires the dogged and sustained vigilance and effort of public intellectuals and people of conscience.
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The Globe and Mail once called Gutsche an «oracle,» and he has all the hallmarks of a public intellectual.
The words of a public intellectual can express my sentiments much more eloquently and concisely than myself.
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.
Her commitment to her role as an increasingly endangered species of public intellectual, and her belief in the capacity of her art not only to make sense of the world but to allow her to fall in love with it over and over again — these are the qualities of work and living through work, as Adnan so brilliantly does, that give Christov - Bakargiev's exhibition its heart.
The growing profile of theory in art schools and a sense of urgency in the face of both technological change and political instability has led artists such as Hito Steyerl not only to broaden their artistic practice but also, increasingly, to play the role of the public intellectual.
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.

Not exact matches

Ad people like to believe that they create the public's tastes and moods (when they're not «disrupting» them), but it's usually more a matter of paddling around on their intellectual surf boards, searching for a cultural wave they can profitably ride to the beach.
How many extortion - fueled hacks and incidents of lost, irreplaceable intellectual property must public and private sector organizations endure in order to do the trick?
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.
The company's lawyer has told Muller - Moore that his kale slogan «is likely to cause confusion of the public and dilutes the distinctiveness of Chick - fil - A's intellectual property and diminishes its value.»
A report containing «muscular» recommendations regarding Chinese violations of intellectual property could also be made public this month, an administration official tells CNBC.
Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.
Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.
With the blockchain, information can be made public, free of the broken intellectual property system in the US and around the world.
The library contained fishery reports on the decline of sturgeon fishing in Lake Winnipeg from the 1890s, said Ayles, and served as invaluable intellectual capital for public researchers at the Freshwater Institute and world famous Experimental Lakes Area.
Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).
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One of the major obstacles they must overcome is the seemingly negative perception the public has of Stéphane Dion; they're attempting to do this by asserting him as a decisive and strong political leader, and by showcasing him as an «average citizen,» rather than a politician who has been regarded as a somewhat - distant intellectual.
For biotech companies, prior art searching includes not only the search of patent databases, but also the search of scientific literature and conference proceedings for potential public disclosures of the intellectual property (IP) subject matter.
That's how the extrordinary writer - and - activist Arundhati Roy, one of the world's leading public intellectuals, describes contemporary capitalism in -LSB-...]
He analyzes institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical sector, regulatory capture of public institutions, innovation policies and intellectual property in the knowledge - based economy, as well as comparative regimes of health insurance and pharmacare.
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.
They will discuss the sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously motivated dissent and how this virtue remains essential for democracy's flourishing.
Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.
Thus I was surprised some years later to find the kind of people with whom I'd grown up — the leftists, the intellectuals, the activists, the public - spirited — suddenly alarmed at the growth of homeschooling.
In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.
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.»
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.
Let me take the instance of India to illustrate Operation Recolonization Limited, not because of idolatory of geography but because, if India, itself a great country in its own right with a socialistic public sector and intellectual culture were to be dominated, other countries, including even the Asian Tigers and China, may face the same doom tomorrow or the day after.
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.
can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.
His annual public lectures, one in commemoration of his father and another a «repentance homily» delivered in the week preceding Yom Kippur, were intricately crafted, four - hour affairs with audiences upwards of one thousand, and served for several decades as cornerstones of the Jewish intellectual calendar.
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.
The ethical and emotional crises that we experience today in relation to the thresholds of birth and death, the uncertainty as to where «personal» value may be located and anchored, and the resultant confusion in the realm of public policy and law are symptoms of the fundamental intellectual crisis of modern humanity.
Intellectuals as such have no particular responsibility to take time away from what they know best to immerse themselves in the intricacies of political life and thought, but absent such immersion they would do well not to give public utterance to their ignorance.
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.
Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.
Nevertheless, it was also the «sole medium of intellectual life» and could become again, incidentally to the process and quite unintentionally, a way of access to the heritage of pre-Christian Roman culture and classical Latin literature (Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [Pantheon.
These are not the problems that occur to thoughtful people, even intellectuals, generally, as they contemplate both the public issues of the day and how to order their own lives in relation to the increasingly confusing world.
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