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Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).
A significant reason is believed to be the steady flight of intellectuals from Iraq, which seems obvious, but is difficult to measure.
Of course, this group – including intellectuals, social activists, journalists, and progressive private entrepreneurs – has little institutional power.
But de Gaulle’s vision of government resonated with the convictions of many French and, above all, with many public intellectuals.
Moreover, some secular intellectuals demonized the Brotherhood.
Similarly in Pakistan, it is dangerous to bet that the country’s pro-democracy lawyers, intellectuals, and students will emerge victorious in the tumult and potential carnage of street politics.
I was a member of the 2015 AHDR team, along with around 30 intellectuals and activists from the Arab world.
Articulate intellectuals and groups such as labor unions and environmental organizations in the advanced economies have voiced anti-globalization fears and sentiments for at least a quarter-century.
Many intellectuals shared this dark anti-globalization vision, and policymakers in much of the East were not far behind.
Almost none of the writings of the intellectuals who have been crucial to democratization and women’s rights in Indonesia – for example, Abdurrahman Wahid, Nurcholish Madjid, Syafi’i Ma’arif, Siti Musdah Mulia, and Maria Ansor Ulfah – has been translated into English.
Chinese intellectuals have always been cognizant of this tension between individual creativity and collective will.
There are plenty of serious intellectuals in Islamic societies who want to revive the reformist call for the embrace of some of the ideas of Western Enlightenment: the value of science, the importance of liberal tolerance, and the need for free and open discussion.
Political leaders plead impotence, intellectuals dream up implausible global-governance schemes, and the losers increasingly blame immigrants or imports.
The Congress for Cultural Freedom, founded in 1950, was one of its many “fronts,” which funded well-known literary and political journals such as Encounter in the United Kingdom, as well as helping dissident intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain.
Moreover, through research and travel grants, foreign organizations have connected Russian intellectuals to the outside world, facilitating the linkages that are crucial in modern academic communities.
Leung became China’s man in Hong Kong, responsible for doing the Chinese government’s bidding – including taking an uncompromising position against pro-democracy protests by students and intellectuals.
Who now remotely understands – let alone takes the trouble to try to understand – the great political dramas of intellectuals like Arthur Koestler and Victor Serge, people who risked their lives for and then against communism?
A few hundred Jewish intellectuals -- writers, doctors, lawyers, even a few women -- mainly from Eastern Europe, came together in Basil, Switzerland.
And there the intellectuals who, in the manner of Luc Ferry and Emmanuel Todd, suggest that it was perhaps not “by chance” that the wreckers had such an easy time approaching, storming, and sacking the Arc de Triomphe.
Arab intellectuals, activists, and youth leaders of different political inclinations have taken a keen interest in what some describe as the “Turkish model.”
Ethnic intellectuals expressed support for Deng Xiaoping's repudiation of radical Maoist politics and the Cultural Revolution.
Indeed, intellectuals and politicians of all varieties almost unanimously hail the politics of caste identity as a move towards true equality.
That is why a group of public intellectuals from around the world has created the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), which I chair.
Despite the ongoing tensions between Russia and the West – or perhaps because of them – Putin enjoys remarkable support among some European intellectuals and politicians.
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.
Turkey’s Historical ResponsibilityNEW YORK – One hundred years ago, on April 24, 1915, officials of the Ottoman Empire rounded up some 250 Armenian leaders and intellectuals in Constantinople and prepared them for deportation.
Intellectuals complained that too little time and energy was spent on "mastering" the past.
Communists saw social democrats as a greater danger than Nazis; and leftwing intellectuals were distracted by the hypocrisy and corruption of mainstream parties they really should have supported.
Moderate Muslim activists and intellectuals tried valiantly to counter the radicals, but seemed unable to gain traction.
Disgruntlement over the increasingly authoritarian governance may be common among business circles, elements of the neutered political opposition, liberal intellectuals, and even part of the bureaucracy.
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