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...federal court judge Richard Posner argued that the public intellectual still exists, but in a weakened, cheapened form—a pundit professor rather than a public intellectual. Posner and Jacoby have a very particular definition of the public intellectual in mind. They do not consider people who simply write about their specialized fields for a general audience to be public intellectuals. On the contrary, they say, only those whose work contains an ethical or political dimension qualify for the title...
...They write letters, call voters, transcribe speeches and hold signs at rallies, known in the trade as “visibilities,” putting themselves in the thick of one of the tightest gubernatorial races in the country...
...help him find his wife and baby in Afghanistan." Clutching a photo of his son, Azeem says: "No, I don't hold any grudge against the Americans." Then he adds with a grin: "But after all this trouble, the Americans should give him a job there. Please write this...
...help him find his wife and baby in Afghanistan." Clutching a photo of his son, Azeem says, "No, I don't hold any grudge against the Americans." Then he adds with a grin: "But after all this trouble, the Americans should give him a job there. Please write this...
...behooves me to preempt a few likely criticisms. First, this isn’t about free speech. Gomes has the right to say whatever he likes from his pulpit. I write a newspaper column: If anyone is committed to the right of shooting your mouth off, I am. But that right doesn’t shield you from criticism when the things you say are wrong...