PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS

This project was, at times, very challenging. We realized that we have just as many questions as we did when we started, like...

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What makes a public intellectual? Is there a list of criteria? Should there be?

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Who decides who can be a public intellectual? Doe we "elect" them, in that, do we decide who we give a metaphorical microphone to?

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But we do think we answered the question: do public intellectuals exist?

We think yes.

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We also realize our own biases definitely went into this project. There are no politically or socially conservative people on our site, and that was a deliberate, albeit biased decision on our part.