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This difference of opinions is mirrored throughout the academy, dividing professors and administrators alike. On one side are those who think public intellectuals should be scholars—both inside and outside the academy—who speak to the public solely about issues that fall under their particular field...
Cornel West is not an historian of the Middle East, nor is he a scholar of international relations. By training, he is a philosopher. What gives West the authority to speak on the Middle East is that he is a member of a special group of people who have been...
In Jacoby’s mind, the true public intellectuals were a group of intellectuals who lived in New York City in the 1930s, dwelling in tiny apartments and earning a living whatever way they could in order to keep writing columns and books on the great social questions of...
Furthermore, some fields—mainly those in the social sciences that deal with socially-pressing issues such as race, poverty and inequality—produce a large number of public intellectuals. “I think there is a high correlation between being a public intellectual and working on...
Like a beacon of light shining from the center of Harvard Yard, John Harvard’s left foot entices all sorts of people, from international tourists in search of good luck to reveling students in search of a place to relieve themselves. Because of the latter, one is inclined...