intellectuals
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To this day, Sand’s literature continues to eloquently embody the role that self-construction plays in the lives of dreamers and intellectuals of every generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Otero Alcantara, a self-taught performance artist, sculptor and painter, rose to prominence in 2020 as leader of the San Isidro protest movement of artists and intellectuals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hundreds of intellectuals and others have signed letters and online petitions expressing fears of a disastrous denouement: the collection’s prolonged — and possible permanent — absence from Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Instead, she places Black Americans, Black intellectuals, and Black constitutional struggle where they have always belonged: at the center of the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
