What accounts for this growing academic influence over economic policy?
The leading Republican candidates do not advertise their academic influences, but they appear to have adopted these ideas.
Among black scholars, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West may have bigger public profiles, but Mr. Baker's academic influence is arguably just as great.
Subsequently, Gadamer's academic influence has become largely confined to the cultural disciplines; in Germany itself, the predominant analytical tone has now more or less extinguished philosophical historicism.
She also wrote and directed "Lear," a confused but nonetheless fascinating 2010 piece about patriarchy and, perhaps, her former academic influences.
Worse, there are those who think that academic influences weigh down the arts, turning out lackluster actors in cookie-cutter plays.
But there is an academic influence to their music: both belong to a new breed of conceptualist musicians (male and female) who are well versed in critical theory.
As important, in preparation for setting up a party, were his academic influences as a lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid: Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxian, along with Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, thinkers whose ideas form the spine of both Podemos and Syriza.
Two of the most voluble promoters of contemporary African work, the curator André Magnin and the collector Jean-Christophe Pigozzi, are interested only in African artists whom they see as untainted by exposure to Western academic influences.
All I'm saying is that by the standards of both the larger genre and Aslan's specific academic influences, the book could have been a whole lot worse.
There can be little doubt that the Oxford students campaigning over the academic influence of Cecil Rhodes are right about one thing: the man was racist and imperialist, and held views that would be pilloried today.
