Public Thinking: Social Media and the New 'Public Intellectual'
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The Rise of the Public Intellectual
Zachary Davis: Christopher Hitchens played a consequential role in increasing public support for military intervention in the Middle East. The high-stakes case of Hitchens forces us to scrutinize that term applied to him, public intellectual. We ask what responsibilities they owe to the public and what forces threaten those responsibilities.
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