A persistent oddity of intellectuals is that when they're talking about someone they actually know they offer a mixed accounting of bad stuff and good stuff: he'll drive you crazy with this, but he's terrific in that.
This is not said in order to point fingers at anyone -- I'd be a fool and a hypocrite to even suggest that I'm deeply familiar with every black woman intellectual or that, when it comes to black women's experiences, I'm somehow omniscient.
Michael Ravnitzky, a lawyer who blogs about intellectual freedom, said that when he worked at the library in college, he learned how some librarians handled problematic books: They stashed them in a cage in the back.
The reason is that when intellectual property rights are assured, most companies are willing to invest heavily in the development of a product like a vaccine.
The intellectual intimidation was such that when Northern Rock cracked, as a result of spectacularly stupid decisions, a Labour government wasted months trying to avoid nationalisation and leave private-sector practioners of the failing witchcraft in charge.
An alternative defense of the evidential force of intellectual intuitions would say that when a person is a priori justified in believing some proposition it is because she possesses the relevant concepts expressed in that proposition.
What intellectuals like Bourdieu ignore is that when the markets consumers favor one cultural production over another, it is a profoundly democratic event.
When a public intellectual hits old age, that's when the vultures begin to circle.The guy has lost it, they say, he's out of ideas, he's repeating himself.
There's a sort of ideal figure that conservative intellectuals conjure when they want to argue about the essence of their ideology.
It is obvious that when he says intellectual self-confidence, he really means ideological commitment.
