Word: thinkers
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...idea to repeat a line from the 19th century French anarchist thinker Pierre-Joseph Prou-dhon: ?The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen.? America, in the spasms of a few hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial. If Gary Condit is mentioned once in the next six months on cable television, I will be astonished...
...much of its money on the slave trade. No one has mentioned Princeton recently, though slaves worked on that campus. And we have been reminded that many of Yale’s colleges and buildings are named after slave-owners. Even John C. Calhoun, the most notorious pro-slavery thinker of them all, has had a college named after him at Yale (not in the bad old days before the Civil War, but in the 20th century...
Conservatives were heartened last week when President Bush appointed Dr. Leon Kass, an eminent University of Chicago bioethicist, to head an advisory panel on stem-cell research. Kass's visibility was already on the rise. He'd been morphing from political thinker to political player, largely because of his passionate opposition to human cloning. He has written two widely read articles on the topic for the New Republic and testified persuasively before Congress. In July he attended a crucial meeting at which Bush moved toward his decision to allow only limited federal funding of stem-cell research...
...social thinker Ernst Becker said, a protest without a program is mere sentimentality. Some of the demonstrators are just migrating loons, for whom a WTO meeting offers the political equivalent of the mosh pit. Others are violently sentimental idealists whose program is to provoke Authority into retaliation, so that Authority may be discredited and, ultimately - they think, they project, they fantasize - brought down...
...central casting's notion of what the Americans call a wonk: the serious, policy-driven young man who can argue for hours in a windowless conference room about the fine points of progressive taxation. He is also seriously charming, disarmingly direct and an unusual marriage of fresh thinker and hustling entrepreneur. In his previous life, he organized rock concerts for Labour, consulted on telecommunications, wrote books and founded the respected Third Way think tank Demos. After working for Blair at Downing Street, where he helped launch programs to cut poverty and unemployment, he became an officially nonpartisan civil servant last...