Cornel West

Cornel West

male, 56 years old
And he's been impressing people for quite a while. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in only three years in 1973, the Sacramento native...
Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

male, deceased (2006)
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire...
Robert Manne

Robert Manne

male, 62 years old
Robert Manne (b. 31 October 1947) is a professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and one of Australia's foremost public...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
Donald Horne

Donald Horne

male, deceased (2005)
Professor Donald Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public...
Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman

male, deceased (1972)
Paul Goodman was an American poet, writer, and public intellectual. He described his politics as anarchist, his loves as bisexual, and his...
Jonathan Spence

Jonathan Spence

male, 73 years old
Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He has been Sterling Professor of History...

Tomáš Halík

male, 61 years old
Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest and scholar. He studied sociology and philosophy in Prague and in Bangor, UK. Dur...
Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray

male, deceased (1957)
Gilbert Murray (January 2, 1866 - May 20 1957) was a British classical scholar, known also as a diplomat and public intellectual, with connections...
Elvis Mitchell

Elvis Mitchell

male, 51 years old
Elvis Mitchell (born 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American public intellectual and a former film critic for "The New York Times"....