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Not only is foreign capital conspicuously absent, but so are foreign managers, workers, intellectuals, and ideas.
Russian voters, the establishment, and intellectuals sense that Putinism has already lost.
The Pope and the PartyALBERTA – As the twentieth century neared, Pope Leo XIII, grieving for humanity’s choice between atheistic socialism and venal liberalism, commissioned Catholic intellectuals to devise a better solution.
Likewise, Russia’s demoralized intellectuals and political class, on whom the population relies to advocate change, neglect to act.
The Decline of the West RevisitedMADRID – Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the “Faustian Civilization” have been a recurrent topic for thinkers and public intellectuals.
Speaking to the Far RightNEW YORK – Something many right-wing populists have in common is a peculiar form of self-pity: the feeling of being victimized by the liberal media, academics, intellectuals, “experts” – in short, by the so-called elites.
In the early 1980s, I worked at the United Nations Refugee Agency, and I recall how Europe’s political leaders, intellectuals, and academics rallied to the cause of the boat people fleeing Vietnam.
Rivero made his decision to go beyond the revolution's definition of journalism in 1989, when he broke from the writer's union and joined with nearly a dozen other intellectuals to sign an open letter raising the issue of political prisoners.
But the attraction of left-wing ideas for Jewish intellectuals is hardly mysterious.
But there is another answer, which takes the form of the old and venerable tradition of Confucianism, which is being revived by government officials, critical intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.
But there is another interpretation of Confucianism – let’s call it “left Confucianism” – that stresses intellectuals’ obligation to criticize bad policies, obliges governments to provide for the people’s material well-being and support those without key family relations, and calls for governments to adopt a more international-minded outlook and to rely on moral power rather than military might to pursue political aims.
Perhaps more significantly, the mindset of many intellectuals and policymakers changed in favor of a more market-oriented approach, including greater integration with the world economy.
In the early years after World War II, the Soviet dictator launched a campaign against Jewish intellectuals, scientists, and writers, who were accused of disloyalty to the Soviet Union and bias toward the West.
Social elites, liberal intellectuals, and critical journalists are the enemy of those who crave power but feel looked down upon by people who appear to be more sophisticated.
In an advanced modern society, such as Germany, intellectuals have no difficulty using openly nationalist language to convince a nationally conscious populace of threats to national prestige.
Instead of a show of lofty disdain, or official silence, it made a colossal fuss, protesting fiercely about plots to undermine China, and putting dozens of prominent Chinese intellectuals, including Liu’s wife, Liu Xia, under house arrest.
Interpretation of religious texts by individual Muslims, including political militants, intellectuals and women, is one result.
French intellectuals, never shy of public posturing, are campaigning to give her French citizenship.
Chinese intellectuals tend to avoid the issue, shrugging it off as irrelevant and anyway too unpleasant to contemplate.
More than one hundred prominent Czech and Slovak public intellectuals have written an open letter to Europe's key leaders, admonishing them to get off their chosen path of appeasement.
That is why the American writer and political commentator Walter Lippmann – no stranger to journalism – ultimately put his trust in public intellectuals working in universities, think tanks, or other niches.
Before that, a petition, signed by roughly 80 prominent British intellectuals and a few from other European countries, demanded the cessation of European Union funding for Israeli cultural projects and institutions.
The Arab world, too, can develop intellectuals, social groups, and eventually countries with liberal economies and societies that are consistent with local cultures.
Taxing the Israeli OccupationCAIRO – Arab intellectuals and policymakers have often accused Europe of using financial generosity to cover up its political impotence over the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The result was a genocide in which as many as three million people, particularly minorities and intellectuals, were killed.
The NIC discussed earlier drafts of its report with intellectuals and officials in 20 countries, and reports that none of the world’s emerging powers has a revisionist view of international order along the lines of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union.
The shortness of this Syrian "spring" came as a hard blow to the expectations of many of the country's intellectuals and professionals, young and old.
Forced to recognize the prospect of being marginalized yet again by the new government, Syrian intellectuals turned their attention to Sharon and the growing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
Once again, the Palestinian cause became a substitute for focused attention on Syria's domestic situation, offering Syrian intellectuals and professionals a politically safe way to vent their frustrations.
As for the Syrian "Street," that amorphous mixture of average citizens and popular consensus, not only did it lack any sympathy for the intellectuals, it also failed to show any systematic interest in domestic politics.
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