intellectuals

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/24/19
  

  The shutdown is Trump’s ultimate attack on American intellectual life

  by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

  The consequences of the shutdown nobody is talking about

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-26-17
  

  Harvard's Moshik Temkin pens op ed in the NYT warning historians not to use analogies

  by Moshik Temkin

  Historians have a role as pundits, he argues, but they have to resist the impulse to oversimplify the news.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed
  4-28-14
  

  The Paradox of Public Intellectuals

  by Eric Hobsbawm

  This age of the intellectual as the chief public face of political opposition has retreated into the past.

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• SOURCE: Mosaic Magazine
  4-3-14
  

  The Walter Benjamin Brigade

  by Walter Laqueur

  How an obscure and maddeningly opaque German Jewish intellectual became a thriving academic industry.