Jottings from the Granite Studio

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Friday tea: Uighur nationalism, the public intellectual, and ‘conservative tanistry’

September 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments

From Arts & Letters Daily comes two articles on the role and responsibility of public intellectuals, particularly those on the left. In the London Review of Books, Tony Judt wonders why liberal intellectuals have been so strangely acquiescent given the catastrophic policies of the Bush 43 administration. Check out the blissfully titled “Bush’s Useful Idiots: [...]

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