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Public Sphere Forum » Blog Archive » Calhoun

Today there are widespread calls for more public social science. Academics have recognized the problems that come from being too much cut off from public discussion. But two questions arise. First, what is the relationship between effective participation in public discourse and the maintenance of more or less autonomous academic fields with their own standards of judgment and intellectual agendas? Second, what is the relationship between “public intellectual” work, informing broad discussions among citizens, and “policy intellectual” work informing business or government decision makers?

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January 16 2009

Love thy neighbour: Why have we become so suspicious of kindness? |

An excellent essay on kindness and the way it is viewed and maligned in the contemporary world.
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