Sentences with phrase «public intellectuals on»

The event will be a landmark conversation between two pioneering creative public intellectuals on visual art and the art world, autobiography and the creative process.
For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on what Chinese investment means for local economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.
(GQ, UK) «Esther Perel is America's first clear - eyed public intellectual on love.»
The New York Times named her the most important game changer on sexuality and relationships since Dr. Ruth, while Quartz dubbed her «America's first clear - eyed public intellectual on love.»

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.
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 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.
Both Friedman (on the right) and Galbraith (on the left) were once leading public intellectuals and economists.
Robert L. Wilken's «The Christian Intellectual Tradition» (June - July) touches on the central issue of religion and public life: truth.
Throughout that time, we have carried on an intellectual conversation about Burkean conservatism, libertarianism, and public policy.
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.
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.
The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).
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.
The naked public square and the antireligious academic arena are incompatible with passionate commitment and intellectual self - respect on the part of religious Jews.
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.
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....
It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama administration on the one hand and the mass of Tea party activists on the other.
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.»
For example, although David Ford's work is much respected among academic theologians, and he is one of the most important public theologians in the UK, his name is probably unknown to most Christians in the U.S. Educated in Ireland, Germany and the U.S. (as well as in the UK), Ford brings a wide range of intellectual resources to bear on his interpretation of the faith.
Every facet of Barton seems to be contentious, whether it be his intellectual, public persona whereby he quotes philosophers on Twitter and appears on Question Time or his on - field persona where he seen as a tough tackling but at times psychotic ankle smashing bruiser.
And so Britain finds itself outside the EU on the basis of a competent communications operation - working off large - scale public concern about the prospect of continued membership - but without significant intellectual policy work on which to draw on.
Of great interest to many readers is the chapter on Judt's transformation into a public intellectual, shortly after his arrival in New York.
He and Snyder tackle some of the most vexing questions pressing on any aspiring public intellectual: what are appropriate métiers, or professions, for intellectuals to affiliate with, and how do these change over time?
On Friday 26th April, the Oxford Union hosted another in the series of «Head to Head» programmes, organised by and filmed for Al Jazeera, where this time interviewer Mehdi Hasan challenged one of the world's most famous public intellectuals, Bernard - Henri Levy, on whether foreign military intervention could ever be justifieOn Friday 26th April, the Oxford Union hosted another in the series of «Head to Head» programmes, organised by and filmed for Al Jazeera, where this time interviewer Mehdi Hasan challenged one of the world's most famous public intellectuals, Bernard - Henri Levy, on whether foreign military intervention could ever be justifieon whether foreign military intervention could ever be justified,
A far more pertinent issue raised by Kristof's piece is buried in his subsequent blog post: «When I was a kid, the Kennedy Administration had its «brain trust» of Harvard faculty members, and university professors were often vital public intellectuals who served off and on in government.»
What would now be good to see from governments is more explanation to their citizens of how the tax system actually works, so the public can makes up its mind with all the facts, such as that corporation tax is paid on profits and not sales and it is legitimate for a subsidiary to pay for the use of intellectual property owned by another group company.
New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.
Tory strategists» search for a «big idea» before the general election seized on the Big Society as a way of providing an intellectual link between the Conservative priorities of boosting social action, public service reform and community empowerment.
Through that perspective the project examined the scope of the public domain in science, emphasizing equity in access to the benefits of science, and encouraging broad participation in deliberations on matters of intellectual property policy.
The benefit of addressing public concern about the composition of the fracking fluids «outweighs the restriction on company action, the cost of reporting, and any intellectual property value of proprietary chemicals.»
Much of the public discussion of the software has focused on the potential for intellectual - property abuse.
Very little has surprised me more, in my years as a public intellectual, than how often I get collared on the street by some desperate pedestrian demanding an answer to this most fundamental question.
Public intellectual Feynman became the pivotal player on the team investigating the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
An unabashed atheist and an avidly polemical public intellectual, he has employed a scorched - earth vocabulary to take on religion, the evangelical right, Muslim fundamentalism, parochial education, and the faith - based political philosophy of George W. Bush.
NSF judges proposals on two major criteria: intellectual merit and broader impact, the latter of which can include education, increased public understanding of science, and other benefits to society.
Limiting himself to 11 of the New York Public Library's 92 branches, and returning continually to its fabled flagship building on Fifth Avenue opposite East 41st Street, Wiseman sifts through lectures, classes, Q&A s, policy meetings, tutoring sessions and stage performances to build a mighty case for the library as the city's social and intellectual lifeblood.
The success of schools also depends on other individuals and institutions to provide the health, intellectual stimulus, and family support on which public school systems can build.
«We are honoring individuals who have not only accomplished impressive intellectual breakthroughs but who have done so with their eyes firmly focused on advancing the public good,» said Douglas S. Massey, president of the AAPSS and Princeton University...
Ferro and her co-director Deborah Hoard focused on U.S. public schools which seek to create a «culture of intellectual life» and to respect «the whole child as a learner and as an adult in training.»
The Public Broadcasting Service and two of its flagship television stations last week announced the launch of a new cable channel that will focus on intellectual and cultural events.
Ensure access to environmentally sound technologies, developing countries have equitable access to technologies, agreement on lifting of intellectual property barriers and measures to ensure that knowledge is in the public domain.
A detour to the included DVD is instructive: in this Harlem - based, lottery - selected public charter school, we see a 1st - grade classroom that challenges any in the country for the intellectual engagement of its students without any reliance on the regimented, direct instruction that the clichéd objections imagine dominate all successful charter schools.
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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).
When our state education officials impose an educational program that does nothing to develop our children's intellectual abilities, intentionally mislead parents about what the law on testing permits, then waste scarce taxpayer dollars, not on educational services, but rather on a media blitz to further snow the public, we know that they do not have the best educational interests of our children in mind.
Diane Ravitch, an intellectual on education policy, difficult to pigeonhole politically (appointed to public office by both G.H.W. Bush and Clinton), but best described as an independent, co-writes a blog with Deborah Meier that some of our readers may be familiar with called «Bridging Differences.»
On October 10, 2016, the Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomed renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky for a conversation with Howard Gardner.
It said, «[t] he Meredith court distinguished the Bush decision because the Indiana Constitution contained no «adequate provision» clause and no restriction on the mandate to provide a free public school system, and instead contained two distinct duties — «to encourage... moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement,» and «to provide... for a general and uniform system of Common Schools.
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