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...Islam. U.S. diplomats working in the Arab world freely acknowledge that over the past two years, America's standing across all strata of the Arab world, from the growing army of angry young men with no job prospects in their stagnant economies to the liberal middle class and intelligentsia enjoying the fruits of globalization, has fallen to an all-time low. And the effects of U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the ongoing violence between Israelis and Palestinians, are sustaining that downward spiral...
...massacre of demonstrators in Beijing at Tianenmen Square came as a shock to the Western intelligentsia who had cheered Mao as the “Great Helmsman.” But purging dissent through murder was among the main preoccupations of the Chinese Communist Party. Top party official Zhou Enlai reported that 830,000 “enemies of the people” were destroyed in three years. Mao himself bragged of killing tens of thousands of scholars and executing over 800,000 landlords during the 1950s. Another high-level administrative report stated that nine million peasants were executed during...
CRITIQUE In a quickie book for the intelligentsia, novelist and essayist Norman Mailer challenges Bush's war aims and the patriotic impulses they engendered...
Strack was similarly disillusioned with the Harvard academic scene. He met his business partner, then-Divinity School student Frederick P. Carret ’90 while enrolled in the Ed School. The two shared a passion for motorcycles and a dissatisfaction with the Harvard intelligentsia. “We were both on academic paths,” Strack says, “but realized that it was not where we wanted to be. We started Central Kitchen in reaction to that...
These awards, distributed by groups that represent the narrowest possible definition of intelligentsia, have very little to do with the process of reaching “regular people.” And Testa’s statement that DoubleTake’s location within the overall media landscape isn’t an editorial concern because “we do what we do out of a conviction” does not inspire much hope for its eventual triumph over financial insecurity...