intellectuals

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Unifying the scenes is the narrator, Laura, who grew up in working-class conditions and has made an uneasy home among London’s intellectuals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Readers of a certain age will recall that Ehrlich was one of the most celebrated public intellectuals of his time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Enough cannot be said about the singing, the dancing, the costume and production design and more in William Kentridge’s chamber opera, in which noted intellectuals and artists flee 1941 France.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

After Ghana became independent in 1957, a wave of black intellectuals and artists moved there from the US.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

He reproached us for being elderly middle-class intellectuals who identified with the movie’s right-wing authorities instead of with the bikers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela