China’s Communist Party has banned discussion of the role of intellectuals in the nation following a call by a news magazine for them to take bold stands on public issues. Reporters at several Chinese ...

I may come back another time with my own reflections on the role of intellectuals within the broader Ethiopian context. I also urge others to join this deliberation—both by engaging with the ...

During the long months of buildup to the war in Iraq, President Bush never did succeed in convincing most of the world of the justice or logic of what he proposed to do. Many people freely granted ...

A tremendous scandal recently unfolded at Harvard University involving a renowned scientist in the field of animal cognition whose research techniques and experiments have been charged with eight ...

In my forthcoming book, The Digital Wasteland, I make two broadly defined observations. First, our democracy is unravelling before our very eyes and second, the role of public intellectuals as ...

On 30 October 1979, political scientist PG Mavalankar delivered an address at the 14th AD Shroff Memorial Lecture in Bombay, ...

In his landmark book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that social scientists (and educators) have an obligation to address the question of truth and its political meaning during a ...

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Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy President of the Senate and Speaker ECOWAS Parliament, reminds one of Rt. Honourable Dr. Newt Gingrich, a former college professor, former Speaker of the US Congress and ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 51, No. 180 (2024), pp. 227-243 (17 pages) This article is based on the author’s reflections on the close research working relationship she was privileged to ...

2001-03-17T15:38:11-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/bookTvA.jpgThe panelists discussed the place of the public intellectual in American society. They talked ...