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Forbes: Is Paul Krugman leaving Princeton in disgrace?
There is too much information here for a blog post to do justice and remain a blog post (as opposed to a booklet), so please read this entry in Forbes…
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Sowell explains why intellectuals cause so many problems
If you?re a regular reader of Thomas Sowell?s work, it can?t surprise you that he takes a dim view of the role ?public intellectuals? play in society. Sowell?s recent book…
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A philosophe insufferable
Bernard-Henri Levy calls himself a philosophe engag?, an involved intellectual. He’s written about his typical day as only a French intellectual could. Read his London Times piece and then read…
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Re: Public intellectuals
I’m not surprised to see Umberto Eco on that list. He was the first person I ever heard described as a “public intellectual.” That was in the early 1990s, and…
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RE: Public Intellectuals
I cannot believe that Hans K?ng made the list of the top 100 public intellectuals, but Richard John Neuhaus and George Weigel did not. On the other hand, I am…