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Besides, thanks to governmental control of public broadcasters and generous public subsidies to private media outlets, both sides can deploy a reliable army of fiercely motivated journalists and intellectuals whose incendiary comments are contributing to the conflict’s escalation.
Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the "decadence" of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.
While their work encounters great resistance from traditionalist and fundamentalist circles (whose views are widely covered in mainstream Muslim and Western media), these contemporary reformers - and the questions they have raised - have had a big impact on a rising generation of Muslim intellectuals around the world.
Even left-wing intellectuals are lining up to support Putin for protecting ethnic Russians from what the Kremlin and its allied media portray as “fascist” Ukrainian nationalism.
Monsieur Piketty Goes to Latin AmericaSANTIAGO – Few things excite intellectuals of the old Latin American left like a book on inequality written by a Frenchman.
Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.
Stoking hatred of minorities, fulminating against the press, stirring up the mob against intellectuals, financiers, or anyone who speaks more than one language, were not part of mainstream politics, because enough people still understood the dangers of such talk.
For many years, intellectuals, activists, journalists, and clerics had articulated hateful ideas that laid the groundwork for Mussolini, Hitler, and their imitators in other countries.
Ordinary people feel angry about what they regard as a betrayal by the intellectuals.
And not only the right: liberal intellectuals like Mark Lilla of Columbia University are making the increasingly persuasive case that identity politics is bad electoral politics.
Initially, Armenian intellectuals were arrested and executed in public hangings in groups of 50 to 100.
Communist parties and Marxist intellectuals saw their legitimacy vanish at the same time as social democratic faith waned.
It is repelled -- as are most Western intellectuals -- by the xenophobia of the party of territoriality.
It is hard to imagine today’s mainstream politicians and public intellectuals engaging publicly in such profound and mutually respectful debates with today’s radicals and upstarts, whether populists, economic nationalists, Euroskeptics, or something else.
The fact that many prominent Jewish intellectuals in Europe and the United States – often, like Kouchner, with a leftist past – are sympathetic to the idea of using American armed force to further the cause of human rights and democracy in the world, may derive from the same wellspring.
So perhaps the existential fear of some Western intellectuals is easier to explain than their remarkable, sometimes fawning trust in the US government to save the world by force.
But critics of the government, including several respected public intellectuals, have pointed out similarities between Boko Haram and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, an armed militant group in the country’s oil-rich region, which has been killing soldiers and kidnapping foreign oil workers since 2006.
And many excellent political leaders – for example, George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, among US presidents – have not been intellectuals.
“The answer,” he says, “is partly that by supporting a thriving top-level intellectual community, we can train our next generation of intellectuals.”
Such a combination of solitary brilliance, personal integrity, and public activism is rare among intellectuals.
Her sentence was roundly supported by modernist Muslim intellectuals, who insisted that the punishment was justly applied and cannot be questioned because it has divine sanction.
Intellectuals may be able to say the type of things he has said and get away with it, not chiefs of state.
At the time, many Chinese intellectuals, including the young Mao Zedong, admired Wilson, a political scientist and former president of Princeton University.
For Chinese intellectuals, Wilson offered a bookish contrast to thuggish warlords.
In 1918, Wilson’s popularity soared – and not just in China – following an address to Congress calling for national “self-determination.”Overlooking Wilson’s support of Jim Crow in the US and the invasion of Haiti on his watch, intellectuals in imperialism-ravaged countries from Egypt to Korea took his declaration to heart, and began to view him as a savior and champion of the oppressed.
Intellectuals like the late Edward Said gave voice to it, but it has many followers in the United States and Europe.
That is a national idea worth striving for – and Pakistan’s intellectuals, its elite, and its youth must be at the forefront of the battle.
The most significant has been offered by one of the chief intellectuals of the opposition Republicans, William Kristol.
China’s Political ParalysisSINGAPORE – After decades of dormancy, calls for political reform have reemerged among Chinese intellectuals.
By continuing to disregard pressure for political reform, the regime risks increasing the disparities between the party-state, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens; between official policy and socioeconomic and political reality; and between the hidden crises that China faces and the state’s capacity to cope with them.
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