Molly Worthen, a historian of religion, points out that nearly a century after the Scopes trial, many evangelicals still worry that secular intellectuals regard them as country bumpkins.
I asked Feng Boyi, the curator and critic who worked with Ai on the "Fuck Off" show, to describe how other intellectuals regard Ai. "Some really admire him, especially young people outside of art circles," Feng told me.
Kurdish leaders and intellectuals regard Kirkuk, which was once the ancient Assyrian trading center of Arrapkha, as their Jerusalem, and their professions of love for the city have intensified as thousands of its Kurdish citizens have been expelled by the Iraqi regime to the Kurdish-controlled regions of the country.
But other intellectuals regarded it as groundbreaking.
Some Spanish artists tried to imitate European styles, or at least to make some money on their country's sexy barbarism, but many Spanish intellectuals regarded such concessions with disgust and argued that their folk traditions should be closely guarded.
The rising generation of policy intellectuals regards a reputation for neoconservatism as professional death.They are also being marginalised or at least slapped down a bit within the conservative movement.
Like many of the Jews leaving the anti-Semitism of Miklòs Horthy's Hungary, he went to Vienna, which became his spiritual home, a place where coffee-house intellectuals regarded football as just as worthy a subject for debate as literature or politics.
A number of these engaged intellectuals regarded Tempels and similarly oriented European and Euro-American thinkers as allies in their struggles against the dehumanizing rationalizations that supported European colonialism.
The acceptance of this designation signaled the consensus among East Asian statesmen and intellectuals regarding the significance of Confucianism for the advanced educational values of the region as well as the multifaceted lexicon of Confucianism as the most apt for conceptualizing and ultimately translating modernity.
Even recent concern among intellectuals regarding China's Tibet policy of the last 49 years has not focused on the recent crackdown.
