Formed by disillusioned younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood, trade-union activists and intellectuals, the New Wasat would have been likely to attract a broad-based following.

ECONOMIST: Democracy can sometimes be too tame

The corpse of Soviet Communism had barely cooled at the time, and our talk wandered from the causes of its demise to the radicalism of New York intellectuals in the nineteen-thirties and forties the Communists, their fellow-travellers, their socialist and Trotskyist enemies and thence to the curious ways in which the influence of those lingering enmities is still felt.

NEWYORKER: Politics and Prose

These old- new practices have not prevented the Kirchner government from being supported by many left-wing intellectuals who welcomed the Kirchners as revolutionary.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Making sense of Argentina's frenzied policy

Despite the slightly tedious nostalgia for the world of the New York intellectuals and the patient outlets of nineteen-fifties high journalism, I doubt that Edmund Wilson or Alfred Kazin would rightfully find much to complain about.

NEWYORKER: Reality Effects

In particular, it echoes a time when the legendary wildness of male New York intellectuals and artists was made possible by middle-class girlfriends who paid the rent and absorbed hipness from the kitchen.

NEWYORKER: Hannah Barbaric

", a normally pliant Obama loyalist at New York magazine blamed this "fiasco" on a "small cadre of intellectuals eager to shift the foreign-policy debate in general, and the Democratic Party's foreign-policy thinking in particular, to the left.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Hagel Democrats