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If you can see i cannot do anything about the space. Theres some room on the floor. Feel free to make yourself comfortable. This is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. I apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. My appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. This has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. There was an article by Nicholas Kristof which triggered a conversation. He wrote an article professors we need you are cope he argued that ma...

Its night to be here at politics and prose after all these years. Thank c sparks opinion cspan for coming which illustrates, by the way, how one person can make a difference. That was the idea of brian lamb many years ago. He persuaded the cable industry to allow that kind of immediate, unedited coverage of events. There are many good people here who ive worked with and who are active citizens in their own right. Mark pla, thekin is here, Joanne Anderson is here. [applause] she wrote the book for the people, whichs a cookbook, in effect, for civic action. Its very clear. Russells here, he neve...

“In much of the Western world, the liberal takeover of institutions is nearly complete. But the revolution isn’t coming.” — @verdur_in observes a reactionary backlash emerging instead https://t.co/7dw6VFWMqz

Ending the blatant contradiction of America’s foundational principles.

“In much of the Western world, the liberal takeover of institutions is nearly complete. But the revolution isn’t coming.” — @verdur_in observes a reactionary backlash emerging instead https://t.co/7dw6VFWMqz