Word: thinker
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Galbraith was a devoted Democrat and advised Presidents Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was a socially aware thinker who lamented the proliferation of economists who were “good at the blackboard” but did not apply their theories to real situations, a class of thinker that he called “esoteric,” according to his biographer, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Richard Parker...
...among professors and nurses, among technicians and police officers, we remembered what made Harvard great—things we too long took for granted. Even as the president’s defenders created the public myth that a handful of lazy leftist professors had brought down a heroic bold thinker, the Faculty talked intensively about what really had gone wrong. Now that we have relearned important lessons about the values of the University, we must not forget them. In most analyses of Harvard’s turmoil, too much has been made of the mysterious uniqueness of academic culture. Instead...
James Burnham, the most important conservative foreign-policy thinker of the early cold war, called this "the catastrophic point of view." And a half-century before George W. Bush took office, Burnham urged the Truman Administration to embrace it. In the years following World War II, the U.S. already had a nuclear bomb, and the Soviets were getting closer. So Burnham proposed preventive (what Bush would have called "pre-emptive") war--to protect America before it was too late...
...news also comes at an inopportune moment, given that Senate confirmation hearings are expected to begin this week for General Michael Hayden, the former NSA director whom Bush has nominated to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency. (See related story "Thinker, Briefer, Soldier, Spy.") Some in Congress were already concerned that putting a general in charge of the CIA would further demoralize an agency that is feeling encroached upon by the Pentagon, which is pushing to expand its own human spying capabilities. In private visits with lawmakers last week, Hayden had put many of those doubts to rest with...
...From floating the name of a respected former CIA operations chief as Hayden's prospective No. 2 to emphasizing his liberal arts background and calling him "An Independent Thinker And A Nonconformist" in a White House fact sheet, the campaign was intended to assuage doubts expressed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and some Senate Republicans about installing the Air Force general atop the nation's civilian spy agency...