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The End of Progressive Intellectual Life

Michael Lind in Tablet · 13 Apr 2022

The author argues that progressive intellectual life in America is dead, as the centralized and authoritarian control of progressivism by major foundations and nonprofits has eliminated the possibility of being a progressive public intellectual.

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The Many Faces of Edward Said

Tel Aviv Review · 19 Jul 2021

In his new biography, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said," Timothy Brennan examines the various facets of Edward Said, a renowned Palestinian-American scholar and public figure, who was also Brennan's former PhD advisor.

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The Many Faces of Edward Said

Tel Aviv Review · 19 Jul 2021

Timothy Brennan, a professor at the University of Minnesota, has authored a biography on Edward Said, a celebrated Palestinian-American scholar and public intellectual, who was also Brennan's former PhD advisor at Columbia University.

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The public intellectual and Jewish philosophy

Tel Aviv Review · 13 Jan 2016

Zev Harvey, a Jewish philosophy professor, discusses the life and ideas of Prof. Aviezer Ravitzky, a leading Jewish philosopher in Israel, before a public event honoring Ravitzky's contributions.

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Requiem for a Luftmentsh

Dara Horn in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

Isaac Rosenfeld, a mid-century American Jewish intellectual known for his essays, novels, and cultural criticism, is explored in Steven Zipperstein's biography "Rosenfeld's Lives."