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Columnist and political pundit Christopher Hitchens championed war with Iraq in a heated debate with former Divinity School Dean J. Bryan Hehir last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s Forum...
...question now, after such a triumph, is whether it will go to Rove's head so that he loses his grip, like many a political genius before him. His successes have guaranteed that there are plenty of people who would love to see him fail. And more than one pundit has rubbed his hands in anticipation of Rove's overreading the message of Bush's success. But here again, it may be the nature of his relationship with Bush that saves him from the agonies of arrogance...
...book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, University of Chicago professor and federal court judge Richard Posner argued that the public intellectual still exists, but in a weakened, cheapened form—a pundit professor rather than a public intellectual. Posner and Jacoby have a very particular definition of the public intellectual in mind. They do not consider people who simply write about their specialized fields for a general audience to be public intellectuals. On the contrary, they say, only those whose work contains an ethical or political dimension qualify for the title...
...Pity the pundit who tries to draw conclusions about the state of the world from the spring-summer 2003 fashion shows in Milan and Paris. Fashion forecasting is a dubious business in any year, but this year it's tougher than ever. Designers at both cities were buoyantly optimistic, unveiling ambitious new shapes and colors in the face of shrinking sales, a stuttering economy and a looming U.S.-led war against Iraq. The trends on the runways of Milan and Paris - shimmering silver, tiny skirts, Asian influences, a new top-heavy silhouette, to name but a few - were stronger...
...speech drew decidedly mixed reviews, with liberal columnist Richard Cohen praising it in the Washington Post for its boldness, and the New Republic, which backed Gore for President as early as 1988, suggesting it was born of bitterness. Every pundit in the country also held up the speech to the light of 2004 and tried to divine whether Gore's words were just the opening salvo of a campaign to make Bush foreign policy Topic A. They got no help from Gore: when he came onstage the following day at a rally for Democratic candidates in Santa...