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Most importantly, this orientation toward moderation has consistently drawn support from Indonesia’s leading intellectuals.
At the height of the New Order’s political repression of Islam during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, a new pattern of thinking emerged among younger intellectuals.
The government’s renewed focus on such a target is thus another indication that the global economic crisis has strengthened those Chinese officials and intellectuals who advocate a socialist system.
Are moderate Islamic intellectuals facing increasing criticism and challenge?
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.
And soon after that, some leading intellectuals condemned the national committee’s condemnation as an affront to freedom of speech.No one mentioned the danger of inciting an already radicalized audience.
Even Tibetan intellectuals who want to study their own classical literature must do so in Chinese translation.
Even intellectuals have lost the ability to hold a nuanced debate about nationalism’s virtues as well as its vices.
It is up to intellectuals to recognize this and frame the arguments that can help governments strike the right balance between national, regional, and global commitments.
Yet we Clintonites received absolutely no cooperation from either Republican officeholders or Republican policy intellectuals.
But, as we should know by now, the next sexual revolution – the one that actually values women as leaders, intellectuals, and sexual beings – is long overdue.
Prominent Russian intellectuals – including the filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov, journalist Maksim Sokolov, and Vsevolod Chaplin, a Russian Orthodox cleric – call for the coronation of Putin, and petitions of support are gaining signatures online.
Nevertheless, whereas only a smattering of political leaders and intellectuals advocated legalization in the past, nowadays officials are coming “out of the closet” on drugs in droves.
Indeed, in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, it was common for Western intellectuals to turn to communism and central planning as a hoped-for panacea.
Ideas of reform emerged periodically among small groups of clergy and intellectuals over the past century, but new thinkers and writers are bringing broad reform ideas to large audiences.
Soroush's ideas are also spread by the informal talks he gives at Tehran mosques, gatherings that include young clerics, regime opponents, intellectuals, political independents and even government technocrats.
Moreover, Twitters brings opinion leaders together around one virtual table, attracting a lot of “new public intellectuals” and “rights advocates,” as well as veterans of civil rights movements and exiled dissidents.
It can effectively link discourse and action, generate widespread campaigns, and forge common ground among rights activists, public intellectuals, and all kinds of Twitter users.
Under outright autocracy, public intellectuals, liberal parties, and the institutions of civil society are crushed; under illiberal democracy, they are harassed, but mostly survive.
Traditional versus modern, urban versus rural, intellectuals versus the peasantry: these divisions are the stuff of political cliché.
Popular dissatisfaction partly reflects a phenomenon that invariably arose in numerous conversations with academics, intellectuals, and top officials: the murky frontier of legality currently reigning in China.
Indeed, even intellectuals are caught up in the emotional undertones.
Leading intellectuals recommend that Europe’s periphery be permanently disempowered for the sake of Franco-German leadership.
But, having debunked the vampire myth, Western intellectuals proceeded to refashion it.
Dmitri Likhachev, one of Russia's most respected intellectuals in the communist era, said that there is no such thing as the Russian soul; "we can create whatever future we want."
Confucian-inspired intellectuals like Jiang Qing, for example, have put forward an innovative proposal for a tricameral legislature.
Marxism appealed to Chinese intellectuals, because it was bookish, introduced a modern moral orthodoxy, and was based, like Confucianism, on a promise of perfect harmony.
Since the first Chinese Web criminal, Lin Haiyin, was imprisoned for instigating subversive actions in 2000 to the recent arrest of writer Shi Tao, more than 100 independent intellectuals have been imprisoned for expressing their views.
African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.
Intellectuals of the old left, pointing to persistently high income inequality, have argued that the economic gains made in the 22 years since the return of democracy were more illusory than real.
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