It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

On November 23, 2004, an article in the Shanghai Party Committee s orthodox Liberation Daily disagreed. It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

He is exhorted in the media and among the intellectual classes.

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None of these intellectuals is against globalization, of course.

But, in the US, many intellectuals are not fulfilling this obligation.

It is important to realize that intellectual history is not just the history of intellectuals.

Norman Finkelstein is one of the most famous intellectuals on the topic.

Of course, Muslim democracy will not be brought about by intellectuals alone.

Indeed, it is thanks to a few thinkers and activists that states have gradually moved away from age old tenets.

Russian voters, the establishment, and intellectuals sense that Putinism has already lost.

Milton Friedman was a giant among modern social thinkers for at least two reasons.

Among them, Aristotle proposed a spherical Earth in 330 B.C.

Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.

Indeed, intellectuals and politicians of all varieties almost unanimously hail the politics of caste identity as a move towards true equality.

Many intellectuals disdain popular culture because of its crude commercialism.

The most famous and influential American economist of the past century died in November.

Smith is cited as the father of modern economics and is still among the most influential thinkers in the field of economics today.

In fact, the ideals of eternal peace and Christian unity were identical in the minds of the early pan European thinkers.

Even Tibetan intellectuals who want to study their own classical literature must do so in Chinese translation.

The slogan Knowledge is power may be familiar, but only intellectuals see its full implications.

We are also fortunate to count on the experience and insight of a board of advisors made up of the leading thinkers in the field of transparency and good governance.

Several thinkers have argued that a healthy society needs not only to protect, but also to encourage dissent.

Milton Friedman was not the most famous and influential economist in the world that honor belongs to John Maynard Keynes.

But de Gaulle s vision of government resonated with the convictions of many French and, above all, with many public intellectuals.

Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.

More and more intellectuals were informed of the Western civilization and became conscious of the modernized powerful nations of Europe.

More radical thinkers insist that California is ungovernable and should be broken into two or even three states.

What the small crowd of intellectuals gathered in Paris was mourning was their hope for a different Russia.

After all, this minority is one of thinkers musicians, artists, and writers, and those who move forward Russian science, technology, and economic innovation.

I recently debated one of the key thinkers behind the decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein.

Global leaders whether policymakers or intellectuals bear a responsibility to prepare their societies for impending global shifts.

Some thinkers, most notably Max Weber, floated the idea that capitalism must be sustained by a value system that could not initially be created from within.

However, the ideas of certain great thinkers, either for their prescience, or for their wide and long term acceptance, bear listing here.

The line between information and entertainment has never been as sharp as some intellectuals imagine, and it is becoming increasingly blurred.

Many intellectuals shared this dark anti globalization vision, and policymakers in much of the East were not far behind.

One conservative intellectual put it in almost Nietzschean terms Yes, two million people took to the street after the elections. But they were voters, not fighters.

Initially, Armenian intellectuals were arrested and executed in public hangings in groups of 50 to 100.

Venture capitalists who fancy themselves global thinkers should likewise think long term about the health of the world around them.

Muslim intellectuals are being encouraged to press the religious argument against fundamentalist violence in order to deprive the terrorists of their most fearsome and potent arguments.

The cheerleaders true sparring partners today are not rock throwing youths but their fellow intellectuals.

The urban intelligentsia and professionals have been pampered with material perks and political recognition, while new private entrepreneurs have been allowed to join the Party.

And what you find is that, especially with creative people designers, programmers, writers, engineers, thinkers that people really need long stretches of uninterrupted time to get something done.

Likewise, Russia s demoralized intellectuals and political class, on whom the population relies to advocate change, neglect to act.

A group of Romanian intellectuals, including me, protested in an Open Letter against this effort to rehabilitate a murderer and propagandist of hate and xenophobia.