Read more intellectual stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/35901/intellectual.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:28:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65767/gop-needs-its-brains-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublican sycophants may think Sarah Palin’s resignation was brilliant, “but don’t kid yourself,” writes Robert Eisinger in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . “The GOP is in trouble.” The party has lost its intellectual coherence, and if it wants it back, it’s got to look beyond the Palins and Mark Sanfords of the...http://www.newser.com/story/65767/gop-needs-its-brains-back.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 13:57:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58337/diplomatic-obama-our-own-spock.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the release of Star Trek tomorrow, we’ll be seeing a lot of Spock again—but we’ve been watching his earthly counterpart all year. President Obama is our own version of the charismatic half-Vulcan, writes Jeff Greenwald for Salon. His cool head and appealing intellect tie him to Spock; so...http://www.newser.com/story/58337/diplomatic-obama-our-own-spock.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 07 May 2009 11:40:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45399/sontags-early-journals-mesmerize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe newly released diaries of a young Susan Sontag provide an invaluable glimpse of how the writer-to-be came to be, critics say. “I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person," the late Sontag writes of journaling. "I create myself." In Reborn: Journals &...http://www.newser.com/story/45399/sontags-early-journals-mesmerize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Dec 2008 18:15:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45400/turkish-thinkers-sorry-for-armenian-catastrophe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA group of about 200 Turkish intellectuals today issued an apology on the Internet for the World War I-era massacres of Armenians in Turkey, the AP reports. The group of prominent academics, journalists, writers and artists avoided using the contentious term "genocide" in the apology, using the less explosive "Great...http://www.newser.com/story/45400/turkish-thinkers-sorry-for-armenian-catastrophe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Dec 2008 17:47:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42256/gladwell-on-success-its-about-luck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJournalist and pop guru Malcolm Gladwell brings other people's big ideas to the masses, and in that way, “I’m a parasite,” he says. In his new book, the author takes modesty to a new level, crediting his success—which, by the way, manifests itself in a $4 million advance for...http://www.newser.com/story/42256/gladwell-on-success-its-about-luck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Nov 2008 13:49:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42149/a-thinker-in-charge-for-a-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSince Adlai Stevenson, America has recoiled from intellectuals in power—but maybe Barack Obama, “an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual,” can change that, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . “Smart and educated leadership is no panacea,” Kristof notes, “but we’ve seen recently that the converse—a White House that...http://www.newser.com/story/42149/a-thinker-in-charge-for-a-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Nov 2008 10:31:00 CST