Public Intellectual

someone who thinks carefully (and shares his thoughts) about items of public importance

Richard Posner: Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline ISBN:067400633X

• http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/posnerr/publicis.htm

• http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/posner.htm

• http://www.kenanmalik.com/reviews/posner_public.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010212&s=forum

Alan Lightman http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/lightman.html

Cary Wolfe on "Getting the Dirt on The Public Intellectual:A Response to Michael Berube"

bio of George Hartmann by BenjaminHarris

Patrick Finn on "Remediating Democracy: The Public Intellectual, HyperText and The West Wing"