Jon Cruddas, a left-wing Labour MP whom some see as a future leader, cites urban intellectuals as one segment of the Labour base that has deserted the party in recent years.
The CDU was founded in 1945 by a diverse group of former Weimar Republic (1919 33) politicians, including activists in the old Roman Catholic Centre Party, liberal and conservative Protestants, workers, intellectuals, and segments of the middle class who decided to become active in the new postwar democracy in order to prevent any rebirth of fascism in Germany.
Ambassador Ed Peck, a retired 32-year diplomat, served as the intellectual basis of a segment of Wright's post 9/11 sermon.
By claiming that a group of 18 to 22 year old college students are secretly terrorists by association, these mythmakers are directly manufacturing a pseudo-intellectual cover and lending ammunition for a segment of our society who already hate and fear "the other --including pother --includingicatiother --includingby a subset of this segment who may be willing to kill.
As a whole, the French political, cultural and intellectual class probably represents the most anti-American segment of French society, because its livelihood and power are threatened by United States-led globalization and liberalization.
The achievements of the Green movement are impressive: It has fractured the state, won the intellectual argument regarding the future of Iran, and attracted a large segment of the public.
At least people who feel accused and shamed tend to feel humiliated, and a large segment of the population seems to feel that minorities, including intellectuals, who place blame on them and demand reparations, are the enemy.
Even if enough candidates with these prerequisites (in addition to intellectual prowess) could be found, how desirable is it to limit trusteeship to so small a segment of the population?
Conservative pundit-intellectuals have locked into a magical frequency, one that remains occult to the left, connects with a large segment of the viewing and reading public, and comes from someplace very sincere.
By the end of the 1930s, the largest segment of the fundamentalist movement, believing that a conservative restatement of faith, representing the best of conservative scholarship, was compatible with contemporary intellectual culture, distanced itself from the separatists.
