Sentences with phrase «prominent public intellectual»

No, a principled, well - reasoned argument has been made by a prominent public intellectual, opening the door to a dialogue that must occur if Common Core is to succeed.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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....

It needs to be broad enough to encompass such persons as public intellectuals, prominent business people, and NGO leaders, subject always to their capacity to wield discursive power.