intellectuals

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Intellectuals and lawmakers should absolutely be concerned about how and when our children navigate social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Intellectuals from Versailles gather at the home of Madame Marie D’Aulnoy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

As Julian Benda reminded us in "The Treason of the Intellectuals," we can serve privilege and power or we can serve justice and truth.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2021

Intellectuals like to believe that ideas emerge from a lecture hall and then converts struggle to implement them.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2019

Intellectuals were stunned at the Aztec books, “which,” one of them said, “almost resemble those of the Egyptians.”

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan