As sequester day dawned, with its arguments about what, how much, and how urgently we should be cutting from government spending, an odd and intellectual note rose in Arkansas.
By Adam Gopnik March 1, 2013 As sequester day dawned, with its arguments about what, how much, and how urgently we should be cutting from government spending, an odd and intellectual note rose in Arkansas.
We arrived in town fairly late last night, after a long day on the road from Philly, stopping off at "the oldest burger bar" in the US, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, and, on a less intellectual note, the Pez Museum in Orange.
And traditional professors like Johann Neem, a historian at Western Washington University, see places like Western Governors University as anti-intellectual, noting that its advertising emphasizes how fast students can earn credits, not how much they will learn.
Narayan's caste was one noted for its intellectual distinction and high culture.
'Over the following decades, Darwin's defenders came to occupy influential niches in British and American intellectual life,' notes Browne.
Polish intellectuals, Gross notes, were mortified by what was happening in their country.
However, each of the tests used for neuropsychological and language assessment had been validated for normal populations, providing assurance that the intellectual deficits noted were the result of Salmonella meningitis.
In the words of a later historian, this was a time when few intellectuals of note were spared a violent end (Jin shu 49).
