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.
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.
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.
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.
Unlike the leftist public intellectuals such as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman who are celebrated and obsessively covered by the Israeli media, Beck exerts real influence on public opinion in the US. His calls for action are answered by hundreds of thousands of people.
However, according to the new view emerging among Japanese intellectuals, Asia has a long tradition of global trade among countries with diverse cultures and religions.
But the infrastructure of modernity, according to the new view in vogue among Japanese intellectuals, was already there.
The top tier of public intellectuals has come to speak mainly through upmarket news media such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books and the BBC.
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That lecture, which triggered riots and cost lives in several parts of the world, won him quiet admirers in some new quarters, ranging from the American neoconservative right to a sprinkling of European intellectuals.
These old- new practices have not prevented the Kirchner government from being supported by many left-wing intellectuals who welcomed the Kirchners as revolutionary.
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Thus, the Kirchner era has been defined by a number of supporting intellectuals in Argentina as a new era of recovery of new spaces and new discourse.
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Many Chinese intellectuals expected new measures of political change particularly democratic reform within the party to be unveiled in his speech on July 1st marking the official anniversary of the party's founding.
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.
This concept, first unveiled two years ago, suggests that the party represents not only its traditional clientele of workers, peasants, intellectuals, soldiers and officials but also new social forces such as private enterprise.
", 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.
He was an occasionally observant if less than pious Catholic who became part of that circle of secular, mostly Jewish New York intellectuals whose style of thought and expression, if not their current politics, was rooted in the polemics of the kind of exotic Marxist radicalisms that never tempted him.
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