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Not that I'd want to encourage one more ranking or list, of which there are plenty, but isn't it interesting that Foreign Policy magazine (Washington) and Prospect (a kind of British Walrus) jointly created a list of leading intellectuals? According to a story carried by CanWest News Services,...
The Czech journalist Iva Skochová has been based in New York for the last seven years. She works freelance, writing in Czech for like the likes of Lidové noviny and Reflex, and in English for international publications and websites. When I spoke to Iva Skochová in Greenwich Village, I first asked...
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...
You know what NATO is otherwise you would not be reading this article. What is intriguing is its membership. The founding members (as of April 4, 1949) were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,...
Informationen zu diesem Beitrag (Please circulate widely & apologies for cross-postings!) A Special Issue of “ANGELAKI – The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities” Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University) ANGELAKI hereby invites contributions on the topic of...
A vapid post on Freakonomics (which elsewhere enthuses about Chrysler subsidizing gas for purchasers of its giant toy trucks) sent me back to Why Bother?, an article by Michael Pollen about facing up to climate change which appeared in April but which I hadn't found time to read before. For...
I wonder if a portrait of Tomislav Nikolic will ever stare down on my slumbering form when I visit Belgrade. The thought is prompted by the hotel I am staying in while covering the Serbian elections. It has paintings of well known world leaders on the walls of the rooms....
Václav Havel led Czechoslovakia to democracy and remains perhaps the best known Czech political figure of modern times. But before spearheading the Velvet Revolution, he was of course a world-renowned playwright. History interrupted Havel’s original career for two decades, but now the former...
Berlin - An association of Germans who have roots in the Sudetenland area of the western Czech Republic made an award Saturday to Prague journalist and human rights activist Petr Uhl for supporting their cause. Uhl, 66, had received the award for det...
T he letter arrived, mayor to mayor, wishing the newly elected Sheila Dixon the usual "cordial congratulations" and wishes of "great success" on the "demanding and challenging" task she faced. ... The letter arrived, mayor to mayor, wishing the newly elected Sheila Dixon...
