Lives of the mind
                   
expressindia.com     May 15, 2008          

The idea of the public intellectual demands a roll call of honour. Intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Marshall Sahlins and Dr Benjamin Spock provided a critique of the Vietnam War and turned it into a great Civil Society debate. The rise of the knowledge society was announced by intellectuals like... [read full story]                    


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Rage Against The Machine Fight The Good Fight; Their Fans Fight Everyone Else, In Bigger Than The...

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Rage Against The Machine Fight The Good Fight; Their Fans Fight Everyone Else, In Bigger Than The Sound Aggressive Lollapalooza fans behaved more like Rage's adversaries than their allies. by James Montgomery Rage Against the...                    

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Move over Noam: Top ten new intellectuals are Muslim

newsvine.com     Aug 5, 2008   1 related          

When Prospect and Foreign Policy drew up s list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals a few weeks ago, none of us expected a Turkish Sufi cleric, barely known in the west, to sweep to victory. Nor did we expect every name...                    

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Profits For Me, But Not For Thee: The Utter Hypocrisy Of Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist

sigcarlfred.blogspot.com     Aug 5, 2008   1 related          

From The Hoover Digest: One of the most persistent themes in Noam Chomsky’s work has been class warfare. When I challenged Chomsky about his trust, he suddenly started to sound very bourgeois: “I don’t apologize for putting...                    

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Corrupt, failed, stupid states

statefailure.blogspot.com     Aug 4, 2008          

Barnett Rubin's mention of it made me read Serbian economist Branko Milanović's article on "corrupt states," but I didn't like it very much. Ex officio, being a contributor to the state failure discourse myself, I do feel the...                    

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