intellectuals

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Equally, the need for professors and instructors engendered by the college boom created its own class of intellectuals and intellectual hangers-on.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

Mr. Stuttard is impressed by Pericles’ association with intellectuals such as Protagoras, who claimed that “man is the measure of all things.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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

Enough cannot be said about the singing, the dancing, the costume and production design and more in William Kentridge’s chamber opera, in which noted intellectuals and artists flee 1941 France.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Before Columbus the primary objective of Renaissance intellectuals was to recover the lost culture of the past, not to establish new knowledge of their own.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton