Sentence examples for intellectual conformity from inspiring English sources

The British Communist party demanded absolute intellectual conformity.

Political correctness and intellectual conformity thrive in academia, perpetuated by a tenure system that makes short work of challenges to accepted dogma.

You might imagine that the ambiguities of the post-civil-rights era -- in which the problems may be clear but the solutions are not -- would reduce the pressures toward intellectual conformity, but Loury's career suggests that the opposite is true.

He developed his expertise about hate groups during the chaotic years that accompanied the unraveling of the Soviet Union, when enforcement of intellectual conformity was lifted, allowing free expression to flourish, even in its most hateful forms.

Yet many supporters of that dialogue, including members of the Jordanian royal family, were passionate for Christian-Muslim amity long before any "provocation" from the Vatican.Saying the unsayableTo his defenders, Benedict is a rare, politically incorrect voice in a world cowed by intellectual conformity.

Loury's alliance with the right was rooted in part in his deep aversion to the intellectual conformity he felt the left imposed on black intellectuals; the right offered not only prestige, resources and acceptance but also, it seemed, the freedom to speak his mind.

As Julien Benda argued in La Trahison des Clercs, democracy and civilisation depend on intellectuals resisting conformity and power.

The remaining red blotches coincide with the traditional strongholds of the worker's movement and the post-Marxist political left: the major centres of heavy industry and/or intellectual non-conformity.

I think a lot of my shyness stems from growing up (and continuing to struggle) in a conservative, anti-intellectual culture (capitalism) where "conformity" ranks much higher, ideologically, than any sort of creative, experiential investigation of the world.

Economists cluster in ideological think tanks that promote political conformity rather than intellectual rigor.

In the column I apportioned blame to both the well-heeled lobbies that swarm to protect their perks and to the think tanks (which are more abundant on the right) that reward political conformity rather than intellectual rigor.