If you can see i cannot do anything about the space. Theres some room on the floor. Feel free to make yourself comfortable. This is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. I apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. My appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. This has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. There was an article by Nicholas Kristof which triggered a conversation. He wrote an article professors we need you are cope he argued that many people in the academy have in some ways render themselves irrelevant for various reasons using languages fall of jargon or revocation or not asking questions that were relevant to the public, and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is unnecessary and is also unfortunate. He did not say this was true of all intellectuals, but he did argue that public intellectuals are in some
Its night to be here at politics and prose after all these years. Thank c sparks opinion cspan for coming which illustrates, by the way, how one person can make a difference. That was the idea of brian lamb many years ago. He persuaded the cable industry to allow that kind of immediate, unedited coverage of events. There are many good people here who ive worked with and who are active citizens in their own right. Mark pla, thekin is here, Joanne Anderson is here. [applause] she wrote the book for the people, whichs a cookbook, in effect, for civic action. Its very clear. Russells here, he never runs out of material. [laughter] robins here, she runs our d. C. Library renaissance project and started out ten years ago it was rated the Worst Library system of any major city, and now a lot of new branch libraries, and there is definitely a renaissance. Alan is here, the great, courageous human rights advocate. And john richard, the citizen networker [applause] is here as well. And many othe
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