So, in true web fashion they put together a poll where they had a bunch of very erudite, very thoughtful, cultured names.

In my opinion, these people are much more wiser than, not only the political elite, even the intellectual elite, even opposition leaders including political parties.

So, too, is an informed and engaged electorate, because the expert advice offered to voters is itself so confusing.

Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs.

Today s Iranian intellectuals have undergone a similar maturation process, dismissing the utopianist and nativist political ideals of their predecessors.

The book caught the attention of both the elites and the mass public with its heart breaking stories of the suffering endured by 900 million farmers and its bold criticism of the government's rural policies.

The quotas prove that the intellectual elite is a term made up to depress and frighten those who don t have large quantities of money to spend on private schools which sell more appearance than knowledge.

The intelligentsia in Russia had accepted the general phenomenon of evolution for several years before Darwin had published his theory, and scientists were quick to take it into account, although the Malthusian aspects were felt to be relatively unimportant.

In Europe, policymakers, including the European Central Bank, demand consolidation for high debt countries, but are flexible in negotiations voters, however, reject it most recently in Italy.

Indeed, among some of Germany s intellectual elite, mistrust toward Europe and its institutions now runs so deep that any new European policy measure is suspected of being a plot to get German money.

On June 9, a group of civil society activists gathered in Kabul to protest Iran and Turkey's UNESCO submission, insisting Rumi was a cosmopolitan poet who is a precious asset of all people of culture.