Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
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The Dreyfus Trial
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of passing French military secrets to the Germans. On January 13, 1898, famed French novelist Emil Zola published an open letter to the French government. He called his letter a revolutionary means to hasten the explosion of truth and justice. The anti-Dreyfusards derided him with a newly coined pejorative, an intellectual.
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