intellectuals

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You might have assumed that America’s intellectuals would have been overjoyed at this postwar cultural leveling up, but not all were.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Unifying the scenes is the narrator, Laura, who grew up in working-class conditions and has made an uneasy home among London’s intellectuals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers and public intellectuals in post-war Germany, has died aged 96.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

We often think of the 1990s in Iran as a time when clerical reformers and intellectuals were trying to reconcile faith and reason, to create a left-wing hybrid of Islam and democracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

The discovery of America in 1492. created a new enterprise that intellectuals could engage in: the discovery of new knowledge.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton