Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 21
“ #Working-class #intellectuals have vanished in recent years. Instead we have witnessed the rise of #millionaire—or #billionaire - intellectuals.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

How Jeffrey Epstein Became a P...
How Jeffrey Epstein Became a Public Intellectual

It's amazing what money can buy nowadays

The Honest Broker
Show threadearthlingJan 26

"There is little that the ordinary man of today learns about events or ideas except through the medium of this class."

"It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told to us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented."

Hayek

#quotes
#intellectuals

Thor A. HoplandJan 15

«His critics’ accusation was, Said argued, a confession. It was they who were ideologically blinkered by the #UK’s #pseudointellectual class, “the insiders, experts, coteries [and] professionals who … mould public opinion, make it conformist [and] encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power.”»

Today’s Public #Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve #Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/todays-public-intellectuals-are-more-likely-to-serve-power-than-challenge-it/

#Palestine #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfInformation

Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It

30 years ago, the BBC invited Palestinian thinker Edward Said to deliver six lectures on the public intellectual, writes Juliet Jacques. Can you imagine something so outlandish happening today?

Novara Media
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Dec 28
#Ironic that a country created in large part by an assemblage of #Enlightenment #intellectuals has its #institutions and #publiclife so thoroughly degraded by an especially virulent expression of #anti-intellectualism. #US
Wisdom in SpaceDec 15

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GreatSandDunes #Colorado

Atma UnumDec 5

Throughout history, intellectuals and artists have navigated complex relationships with power, influencing societal norms while facing challenges. 🎨✊ #ArtAndPower #Intellectuals #Creativity #ArtForChange #CulturalDynamics

https://unumatma.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/t/

The Dynamics of Intellectuals and Power: A Historical Overview

Throughout history, intellectuals and artists have navigated complex relationships with power, influencing societal norms while facing challenges. 🎨✊ #ArtAndPower #Intellectuals #Creativity #ArtFor…

Atma Unum
N-gated Hacker NewsNov 20
Apparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring

November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”

The Paris Review
Wisdom in SpaceOct 18

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico

Wisdom in SpaceOct 7

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

Show threadEstelle PlatiniSep 29

"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."

by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists

House Arab | Bidoun

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it sparkled on their tongues.

Bidoun