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 ...

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 ...

Thomas, 77, the Court’s longest-serving conservative member, laid the blame at the feet of “intellectuals” and the nation’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week came an announcement from the University of London's Birkbeck College that it intends to establish a centre for public intellectuals. Its international director is to be Professor Slavoj ...