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Most other surveys of public intellectuals seem to be done by polling readers of highbrow publications.
Why is it that left intellectuals seem to think that the facts get in the way of the story?
Some Israeli intellectuals seem to take solace in the thought that, unsettling though the revelations of the new historians may be, they demonstrate a national coming of age.
China has so thoroughly eclipsed Japan that few American intellectuals seem to bother with Japan now, and once crowded Japanese-language classes at American universities have emptied.
Perhaps it reflects a more certain, ruthless conservative politics or the fact that intellectuals seem to have less to say or more trouble getting heard.
Rather than engage deeply with the imperial and postimperial histories of societies hardly ever discussed in the mainstream western media, many respectable writers and intellectuals seem to have decided that selectively reading the Qur'an, along with the conveniently pithy exegeses of Hirsi Ali and other neocon pugilists, is the easiest and quickest way to figure it all out.
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In light of these alternative histories, "The Flight of the Intellectuals" seems to be laboring merely to underline the obvious: that a Muslim with a political subjectivity shaped by decades of imperial conquest, humiliation, and postcolonial failure does not share the world view of a liberal from Brooklyn.
One of the distinctive aspects of British culture is that the word "intellectual" seems to be regarded as a term of abuse.
Daniel, an early uptaker of the role of public intellectual, seems to lack any quality at all, unless it's irritability.
Russian intellectuals always seem to display pictures not only of the family but also of their cultural icons; Larissa kept photographs above her desk of John Meyendorff and another venerable Orthodox thinker, Alexander Schmemann.
People with intellectual disabilities seem to take second place in making decisions regarding their own quality of life.
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