A university's decision to shut its philosophy programme has sparked concerns about the future of the humanities and become a cause célèbre for intellectuals around the world.
This was probably recommended by Michael Gove, one of the few genuine intellectuals around the cabinet table, who hailed it in the Times as "supremely ambitious".
Certainly as a young group leader myself, my greatest ambition was to be taken seriously by the intimidating intellectuals around the lab, who were very accessible and took an alarmingly close interest in what I was doing.
Havel's state funeral is likely to draw a crowd of leaders, artists and intellectuals from around the world.
After spending a semester as an undergraduate at Berkeley, she moved to the University of Chicago and, following graduate school at Harvard, eventually ended up in New York, where she fell in with the intellectuals gathered around the Partisan Review.
In an interview here in his native village, in an area which the Northern Alliance rebels control, he described a Kabul where intellectuals from around the Muslim world filled cafes, and Indian and American movies played in theaters.
Political London has developed a thinking culture of its own, like capitals such as Paris and Washington.In this section The one-year itch Free speech v private life Low bounce Sea change Guns and roses Value for money The thinking capital Reprints Take for example, the emergence of Downing Street as a salon for intellectuals from around the world, and not only economists and political scientists.
The consensus across all faculties was that the university couldn't afford to lose the annual intake of 40 Orsas grant recipients which keeps the university at the forefront of intellectual inquiry around the world.
In the past forty years, we have come to a startling and important intellectual consensus around the world: we have decided, more or less, that markets are the best way to organize an economy.
He never stops churning material - be it sentient, political or intellectual - around the miasma of his head; he barely pauses for breath during his daily rounds from the studio to the subway, to the trattoria, to the gym, into deep cyberspace, to the squash court, to the subway again and then back to the studio again.
A writer of numerous books on Mexican politics, including "Perpetuating Power, How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen," which is being released this week in New York, Mr. Castaneda has intellectual admirers around the world.
