Intellectual

The allure of top-flight universities and colleges is one of the many assets that helped the United States maintain and strengthen its reputation as the most powerful country in the world.

The French Institute in Athens, in cooperation with the Belgian Embassy, is holdings its sixth Night of Ideas, where members of the public are invited to engage in discussion and debate with intellectuals, academics, artists, documentary filmmakers and other thinkers.

Following Bosnia's decision to apply for EU membership, a group of intellectuals and activists have called on the politicians not to misuse this historic step to advance their own careers.

Academics and intellectuals who publicly called on the Turkish government to end security operations in southeastern Anatolia and return to the table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue are the "conscience of the country," a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said.

Nationalism, conservativism and right-wing politics in general have always been nativist in Turkey. But recently, they are on the rise along with xenophobia, anti-Westernism and anti-intellectualism. All societies in times of turmoil seek refuge in authoritarianism, always search for unity and become skeptical of domestic and foreign enemies.

The feast of the Holy Spirit is a workers holiday for the most creative members of society. Teachers, journalists, bankers and intellectuals typically have the day off. Aware of this, Varoufakis pointed this out to journalists when they approached him to ask questions about the withdrawal of Eleni Panaritis as Greece’s IMF representative.

I am sick and tired of all those ?well-intentioned? Western liberals and leftists who constantly pose as the most understanding of ?the oppressed Orientals,? especially because I was one years ago. No, I was not a Western intellectual who ceased to be so; I was one of their counterparts in societies such as ours.