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Western scholars who understand Islam and speak some of the many languages of its practitioners need to support these intellectual movements.
Just look at the issues that are beginning to agitate the political debate in advanced societies: birth control, death control, life prolongation, health cures, improvements in appearance, intellectual enhancement, personality alteration, human cloning, brain transplants, synthesis of human and artificial intelligence.
It is, in essence, an intellectual stress test – forcing Chinese leaders to defend newly formulated strategies and policies before a tough and seasoned audience of outside experts.
The intellectual assault on it takes two forms.
Arguments about the euro crisis that disregard the “Karlsruhe factor,” therefore, amount to little more than sterile intellectual debate.
Building intellectual capital and institutional competence can take years, but it can be done.
Even the word "neo-liberal" exaggerates the intellectual coherence of this counter force.
In Islamic tradition, reform of Sharia results from an Ijtijad, a creative and intellectual effort to apply Islamic law to new circumstances.
This brings us to the intellectual challenge of superconductors.
For the US, the biggest concern seems to be so-called forced technology transfer – that is, the requirement that foreign companies share their intellectual property with a domestic “partner” in order to gain access to the Chinese market.
The failure of moderate establishment forces to grasp and respond to the forces now moving the world, from digitization to globalization, led to a governance vacuum, which has now given way to a moral and intellectual vacuum.
Muslim religious and political leaders have the intellectual capital to refute their misplaced religious convictions, and can repeat sura after sura, hadith after hadith, detailing Islam's rejection of violence and repudiation of the killing of innocents.
Likewise, as France slides into a governance crisis and its leaders’ credibility rapidly erodes, the leading French intellectual Alain Minc has published Vive l’Allemagne (“Long Live Germany”), in which he argues that Germany is Europe’s healthiest and most democratic country.
If these countries imposed tit-for-tat measures on US imports, the US companies that export those components would suffer, as would companies that collect royalties on intellectual property used abroad.
This was most obvious with the intellectual responses to Islamist terror: terms like “Islamo-fascism” or “third totalitarianism” were coined not just to characterize a new enemy of the West, but also to evoke the experience of the anti-totalitarian struggles that preceded and followed World War II.
But he will be remembered primarily as the visionary who provided the intellectual firepower for free-market enthusiasts during the second half of the century, and as the éminence grise behind the dramatic shift in the economic policies that took place after 1980.
That would hardly look good given all the bashing China takes for not enforcing intellectual property rights more vigorously.
But these earlier disputes occurred within a very different geopolitical context – the Cold War – and the bygone intellectual and political framework of containment.
But if the geopolitical context is clear, the intellectual and political framework – the successor to containment – is not.
Translating mutual recognition of this into reality will require intellectual honesty and political investment on both sides of the Atlantic.
This is why we sense an intellectual affinity with the essence of American civilization.”
In the new economy, intellectual capital dominates production, and it is mobile.
Nothing, however, is more portable and easy to move than intellectual capital.
Friedman accused such executives of being "unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society."
John Maynard Keynes once noted that “practical” people – those who believe that they are “exempt from any intellectual influences” – in fact “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
If they do not break their intellectual chains, they will secure for themselves nothing but more misery.
In the end, John Paul II does not fit neatly into any category and often represents a meeting of opposites: rejection of compromise with ecumenism, toughness with warmth, intellectual openness with insistence on theological orthodoxy.
The human and intellectual qualities of the three remaining candidates are even viewed with some envy on this side of the Atlantic, where you can hear statements such as: “Could we borrow just one of your candidates?”
The theory of “debt overhang” – the intellectual origin of the proposal – explains why troubled banks are reluctant to issue new equity: the benefits accrue mostly to the bank’s bondholders and dilute existing shareholders.
Moreover, there is a fundamentally creative element to innovation: it results from an intellectual process that takes time, and that in retrospect always seem inexplicably slow or episodic.
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