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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.
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.
Born to Jewish immigrants in New York, both critics were public intellectuals in the heroic mold of Partisan Review and other small but scarcely humble organs of cosmopolitan thought.
In 2005 and 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
In 2005, and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.
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».
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.
Haldane, a Scot who teaches philosophy at St. Andrews, is a prominent public intellectual in Britain.
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.

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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?
«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.»
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.
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.
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).
Feb. 9, 2017: Waymo obtains documents through a public records request in Nevada that, it alleges, show Uber was «using Waymo's intellectual property for an imminent product launch.»
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After five years, he finally completed the software in 2009, however, the investment fund maintained its intellectual license over it for 5 years, which is why the software is only available to the public now.
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.
We also provide intellectual property support in conjunction with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and financings.
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.
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.»
Fundamentalism was too other worldly and anti «intellectual to gain a hearing amongst the educated public, and was unwilling to concern itself with exploring how Christianity related to culture and social life in general.
As anyone in publishing could testify, it was not an immediately obvious or intuitive combination: Newsletters were big business in those pre-Internet days, and public - intellectual journals held an important position in national discourse.
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.
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.
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.
Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.
There was no climactic change of direction such as Karl Barth's, but he moved in response to intellectual inquiries and public events.
Under increasing intellectual attack, diminishing influence in most public policy areas, but solidly entrenched in educational establishment where there is slight prospect for change in near future.
Fahrenheit 451 remains in the public consciousness for its searing critique of censorship (451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns — in Bradbury's dystopian view of the future, that temperature is used to burn books) and control over learning and intellectual pursuit.
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....
He was uninterested in being a public intellectual.
Most of us, I suspect, are impressed by the power of Whitehead's intellectual vision, and seek to make it more accessible and intelligible to colleagues in other fields (and to the educated public).
Class analysis has been not only been ignored but also condemned in the United States, both by the general public and even by many intellectuals.
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....
Kramer's method is not unlike that used by Paul Johnson in his book Intellectuals: he measures the ideas and rhetoric espoused by these self - appointed experts against their own behavior, both public and private.
Even religion's most informed advocates are reluctant to speak of their faith in public settings for fear of rejection by their intellectual peers.
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