Is there anything new to say about intellectuals? Thomas Sowell, the conservative economist and writer who hangs his hat at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, gives it a shot. Sowell is a rare ...

There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide range of others who disseminate ...

One of the Supreme Court’s most powerful justices launched into a televised meltdown about “intellectuals.” Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas railed against progressivism, calling it an ...

At most universities—and above all in their humanities faculties—capitalism is a dirty word. The market economy has very few supporters and many vehement critics. This is true in the United States—and ...

Almost 30 years after Russell Jacoby wrote his influential book, he and three other essayists look back at the status of public intellectuals in a new academic climate. View the essays. For some ...

Sociologist C. Wright Mills (left), author of the The Power Elite and other books, was a leading labor intellectual in the 1950s. He died in 1962. In These Times is at a crossroads and we urgently ...

Alcove 1 at the City College of New York is surely the most famous lunch table in American intellectual history. No Ivy League dining hall can compete. In the 1930s, a remarkable coterie of students ...

Michael Duffy: Let's start the show by having a look at the universities and the state of intellectual life in the west. Twenty years ago American academic Russell Jacoby wrote a book called The Last ...

Alain de Botton, philosopher 'Most influential intellectuals are now employed by the state' A public intellectual is someone whose reasoned ideas have an impact on a broad swath of society. This has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump military leaders Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The ...

One of the distinctive aspects of British culture is that the word "intellectual" seems to be regarded as a term of abuse. WH Auden summed it up neatly when he wrote: "To the man-in-the-street, who, I ...