Long before "sustainable" became a buzzword, intellectuals wondered how long industrial society could survive.
Some intellectuals wondered whether it was wise to appropriate the color red, the color of communism, for a sporting endeavor.
But he admits "intellectual wonder" at how it is that more people can't see that economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable – and unethical.
People who love science are intellectual wonder-junkies, who can't get enough of the amazement only scientific knowledge provides about our universe, and who revel in the ways that knowledge transforms how they think about our place in it.
Pro-Europeans risk playing the intellectual Marie Antoinette, wondering aloud from the Palace of Westminster why the mob that hungers for security cannot be fed hot analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Yet as a curious intellectual, I wonder how much truth there is to that claim.
"The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and wondering whether they put —" Mr. Christie said before cutting himself off.
He added, "The next attack that comes, that kills thousands of Americans as a result, people are going to be looking back on the people having this intellectual debate and wondering whether they put …" His voice trailed off in self-conscious melodrama.
Hu Xingdou of the Beijing Institute of Technology says it has become common among intellectuals to wonder whether 70 years is about the maximum a single party can remain in power, based on the records set by the Soviet Communist Party and Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party.
By the nineteen-nineties, especially after the passage of the soi-disant Mickey Mouse Protection Act, in 1998, a growing number of legal scholars had begun to question the basic assumptions of intellectual-property law, wondering whether it has ever done what it was meant to do.
Not even to have the intellectual curiosity to wonder what they've learned from you? Pathetic.
