Julia, you can continue in your topic questions about religion, there are many examples..I was just more interested in talking about intellectuals and the effect of their ideas on society..do you have answers for me??
i have more questions..too..(ch)

***********.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/16325.htm
here some facts about the disarmament efforts in the World prior WWII.."unsubstantiated facts"...(ch)
still no answers on favorites..:-(
I provided "the evidence"..(ch)

Maria said:
"People care about it because they see their religious rights are beingsimpinged. Intellectuals slowly, piece by piece, try to take awayreligious freedoms."
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- as I suspected, there is not a single shred of any evidence of this... nothing at all.(ch) , not even one "piece be piece"...
great, let's move on to intellectuals:-D ....
maybe Maria will still get some stuff on this...

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Julia, I posted it in your topic..it has about ten different examples..but since you insist here is one more..
***********.personalliberty.com/news/school-singled-out-for-alleged-attack-on-religious-freedom-19524493/
I thought intellectuals check their own topic for new posts and have other favorite intellectuals they can, at least, respect and prove they have been right..(ch)

here is an example of a very interesting , if you will, intellectual magazine:
***********.edge.org/
as you might see, it is largly apolitical... mostly focuses on culture, science and the nature of consciousness.
I am a big fan of Steven Pinker these days...
Ne is primarily a linguist and cognitive scientist.

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ok, I will it move here too..just to make sure you finally see it (ch)
***********.examiner.com/x-12712-Northern-KY-Spirituality-Examiner~y2009m7d31-Attack-on-religious-freedom-in-America

Oh, I see, Sveta...I will look there, thanks... I was just reading these posts for sequence

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Julia, here is his claim to fame
Pinker is most famous for his work — popularized in The Language Instinct (1994) — on how children acquire language, and for his popularization of Noam Chomsky's work on language as an innate faculty of mind. Pinker has suggested an evolutionary mental module for language, although this idea remains controversial. In The Language Instinct,Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity forlanguage. In addition, he deals sympathetically with the claim that allhuman language shows evidence of a universal grammar. AdditionallyPinker argues that many other human mental faculties are adaptive (and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many evolutionary disputes).
popularization of Choamsky is "admirable" (ch) , but can you describe in your own words the breakthrough he was able to establish?? was he a pioneer of any sort?

can't agree more..:-) but there is so many like him in the academia :-(
what do you think about the notion that today there is a lot anti-wisdom in the intellectual circles...studies, articles, opinions, but wisdom, proven experienced, all are not embraced among the modern intellectuals..

here is another legacy of the progressive era..and it takes another intellectual to admit what took place and who was behind the ideas..
***********.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf
Retrospectives
Eugenics and Economics in the
Progressive Era