The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

A glance at the current issue of Comparative American Studies: How to be a "public intellectual"

Noam Chomsky, the controversial author and linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert Kagan, a neoconservative commentator, each represent a way to be an "intellectual," says Pierre Guerlain, a professor of American studies at the University of Paris X-Nanterre. Their opposing...

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