But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.
It is odd that so many gifted intellectuals should so resolutely stick to superfluous observation.
Many leading intellectuals, including the authors Amos Oz and David Grossman, are backing Meretz rather than Labour this time.
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I'm sorry to say that many--including many American intellectuals--are cowards.
In any event, many Lebanese intellectuals, who felt they were at last reclaiming a space for civilised debate, are thinking again of leaving the country, as so many have done in the past.
Unlike so many artists and intellectuals during the hothouse 1930s, the Murphys' politics were non-utopian and humane.
Many Arab politicians and intellectuals have denounced the kidnapping and killing of civilians as un-Islamic.
For all his popularity, Mr Erdogan is a polarising figure who, in his second term, has lost the support of many Turkish liberals and intellectuals who once saw him as a democratic pioneer, pushing back the militaristic state that ruled the country for most of the 20th Century.
For many Indonesians, including some intellectuals, it is all too much to bear.
This would be the typical view of many of the pseudo-intellectuals that now populate much of the media and intellectual public life in Argentina.
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Ong, for one, complains about encountering deep prejudice from both intellectuals and artists on his many trips overseas.
Muhammad is one of the founders of the Indonesian Association for Muslim Intellectuals, whose board of advisors includes many ministers.
Since construction began in 2001, many of South Korea's composers, painters, sculptors and intellectuals have made Heyri, not Seoul, their home.
However, it is also true that laissez-faire capitalism of the late 19th century developed many unfortunate characteristics, that became so acute that several generations of intellectuals and national leaders sought ways to deal with them.
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The result is that many of Indonesia's ulama, or religious scholars, turn out to become modern intellectuals.
By the time Mr Reagan was campaigning for president in 1980, the Republican Party had taken over many of Mr Wallace's populist themes: distrust of Washington, of bureaucrats, of intellectuals.
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