| LAS 400: | The University and the Public Sphere: Public Intellectuals and Their Social Influence |
Casebook:
Course
Participants’ Media Sightings of Public Intellectuals
| Date Submitted | Submitted By | Reference | Comment |
| Janurary 9 | Michaela Lawrence | Clarence Page, “Harvard disses a blue-ribbon professor,” Chicago Tribune,sec.1, p.19, 1/9/02. | West/Summers |
| January 11 | David Potts | Unsigned editorial, “Crimson faces at Harvard,” Chicago Tribune, sec.1, p.18, 1/11/02. | West/Summers |
| January 11 | David Potts | Georgie Anne Geyer, “Embarrassing bow to political correctness,” Chicago Tribune, sec.1, p.19, 1/11/02. | West/Summers |
| January 11 | David Potts | Julia Keller, “Poisoned Ivy,” Chicago Tribune, sec.5, p.1, 1/11/02. | West/Summers |
| January 11 | Brett Lettiere | Fareed Zakaria, “The Education of a President,” Newsweek, p.64, 1/14/02. | West/Summers |
| January 12 | Stevan Weine | James Brooks, review of Posner in the NYTimes, 1/13/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/books/review/13BROOKST.html?ex=1011887090&ei=1&en=73967bff20f77d80 | Posner's book, Public Intellectuals, will be discussed by Rorty |
| January 13 | Michaela Lawrence | Slate Magazine commentary on Posner, 1/7/02, http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060496 | Includes references to Posner's own site: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/ |
| January 13 | Adam Andersen | NPR Web article on French talk show host Marc Telenne, 1/12/02, http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/jan/karlzero/020112.karlzero.html | Like Cornel West, he cut a CD |
| January 14 | Cary Nathenson | Eric Alterman, "Judging the Wise Guys," The Nation, 1/28/02. | Review of Posner |
| January 14 | Brett Lettiere | Richard Posner, Public Intellectuals, ch.1, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/books/chapters/13-1st-posner.html | |
| January 14 | Beth OMalley | Alan Wolfe, "The Fame Game," The New Republic Online, 12/31/01, http://www.thenewrepublic.com/123101/wolfe123101_print.html | Review of Posner |
| January 15 | Beth OMalley | Jonathan Yardley, "Harvard's Gates of Power," The Washington Post, 1/14/02, p. C02 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41033-2002Jan13.html | West/Summers |
| January 15 | Cindy Reutzel | Robin Wilson and Scott Smallwood, "Battle of Wills at Harvard," Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/18/02. | West/Summers |
| January 16 | Crystal O'Mara | Good Morning America interview with Shelby Steele, 7:40a.m., cdt, 1/16/02. | West/Summers |
| January 16 | Crystal O'Mara | Good Morning America interview with Richard Restak of George Washington Univsersity, 1/9/02. | A "personal trainer for your brain." |
| January 17 | Rob Sevier | Julia Keller, "Give West an 'A' for irking Harvard with scholarly aplomb," Chicago Tribune, sec.5, p.1, 1/17/02. | West/Summers |
| January 17 | Andrew Walser | Unsigned news brief on the sentencing of murderers of writers/scholars in Turkey, Chicago Tribune, sec.1, p.6, 1/8/02. | |
| January 17 | Alexander Konetzki | Daniel Smith, "That Word: Interview with Randall Kennedy," The Atlantic Online, 1/17/02, http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-01-17.htm. | Kennedy is the black author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word. |
| January 18 | Beth OMalley | Nisa Islam Muhammad, "Harvard prof responds to attack," The Final Call (on-line), 1/15/02, http://finalcall.com/national/cornel_west01-15-2002.htm. | West/Summers |
| January 18 | Adam Andersen | Gretchen Helfrich Interview with Richard Epstein on Odyssey, WBEZ radio, 1/14/02, http://www.wbez.org/frames.asp?HeaderURL=../schedule/hd_sched_light.htm&BodyURL=/schedule/odyssey/odyssey_v2.htm. | |
| January 18 | Justin Joyce | Ken Ringle, "Stephen Ambrose and the Rights of Passage," The Woshington Post Online, p.C02, 1/10/02, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28869-2002Jan10.html. | Plagiarism scandal |
| January 18 | Justin Joyce | Jay Tolson, "Whose Own Words?", Usnews.com, 1/21/02, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020121/ideas/21cultwatch.htm. | Plagiarism scandal |
| January 18 | Justin Joyce | Fred Barnes, "Stephen Ambrose, Copycat," The Weekly Standard, 1/14/02, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/738lfddv.asp. | Plagiarism scandal |
| January 19 | Cindy Reutzel | Frederick Fremont, Anne Marie McCormack, Faith Henderson: three (serparate) letters to the editor, Chicago Tribune, sec.1, p.27, 1/19/02. | West/Summers |
| January 19 | Brett Lettiere | Gretchen Helfrich Interview with Mark Lilla, Richard Posner, and Judith Shulevich on Odyssey, WBEZ radio, 12/12/01, http://www.wbez.org/frames.asp?HeaderURL=../schedule/hd_sched_light.htm&BodyURL=/schedule/odyssey/odyssey_v2.htm. | |
| January 21 | Crystal O'Mara | William Grimes, "Another Top 100: This Time It's Intellectuals," New York Times Arts section, 1/19/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/19/arts/19POSN.html?ex=1012640809&ei=1&en=362816283a493d54. | Review of Posner |
| January 21 | Mark Grill | Jeet Heer, "A hit parade for public intellecutals," The National Post Online, 1/5/02, http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20020105/1042884.html. | Review of Posner |
| January 22 | Alexander Konetzki | Rick Perlstein, "Thinkers in need of publishers," New York Times Op-Ed section, 1/22/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/22/opinion/22PERL.html?ex=1012692404&ei=1&en=40823a0ba7d65532. | Comment on Posner |
| January 22 | Beth OMalley | Eric Boehlert, "The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian," Salon Magazine, 1/19/02, http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/19/bubba/. | Professor Al-Arian was fired for appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor". |
| January 22 | Beth OMalley | Interview with Noam Chomsky in Frontline: India's National Magazine, 12/8/01, http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1825/18250080.htm . | |
| January 22 | Mark Grill | Joam Chomsky, "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream," Z Magazine, 10/97, http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9710-mainstream-media.html. | |
| January 22 | Alexander Konetzki | Scott Stossel, "Elitism for Everyone," The Atlantic Online, 11/21/01, http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-11-29.htm. | Comment on Jonathan Franzen's "no-O" novel The Corrections |
| January 23 | Brett Lettiere | Ron Grossman, "Wormy Apples from the Groves of Academe," Chicago Tribune, Section 5 "Tempo": 1, 5, 1/23/02. | Academic fraud case. |
| January 24 | Mark Grill | Gunter Grass and Pierre Bourdieu, "A Literature from Below," The Nation, 7/3/00, http://past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=http://past.thenation.com/issue/000703/0703grass.shtml. | A converstaion btw the two on public intellectuals. |
| January 25 | Adam Andersen | "Talk of the Nation" discussion w/ Taylor Branch and John Hope Franklin, NPR, 1/21/02, http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=01/21/2002&PrgID=5. | Discussion of Martin Luther King. |
| January 25 | Crystal O'Mara | "American Intellectuals: Unsung, Uncited," (letters to editor), New York Times, 1/24/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/opinion/L24INTE.html?ex=1012997249&ei=1&en=655208321c21b5bd. | Responding to Posner. |
| January 26 | Crystal O'Mara | Jacques Steinberg, "A Harvard Star In Black Studies Joins Princeton," New York Times, 1/26/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/education/26PRIN.html?ex=1013066959&ei=1&en=e8739b7b290374fc. | Anthony Appiah leaves Harvard. |
| January 27 | Brett Lettiere | Elizabeth Taylor, "In Search of Hip-Hop's Tupac Shakur." Chicago Tribune. Sunday January 27, 2002. Sec. 14 "Books": 3. | Interview with Michael Eric Dyson. |
| January 27 | Alexander Konetzki | Patrick Healy, "Harvard losing Afro-American Studies professor," Boston Globe, 1/26/02, http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/026/metro/Harvard_losing_Afro_American_Studies_professor+.shtml. | Anthony Appiah leaves Harvard. |
| January 29 | Crystal O'Mara | Noam Chomsky, "Noam Chomsky replies," Salon Magazine, 1/29/02, http://www.salon.com/people/letters/2002/01/29/chomsky/index.html. | Response to some charges of inaccuracy. |
| January 29 | Alice Brown | Howard Reich, "Prominent black scholar quits U of C," Chicago Tribune, sec.1, p.1, 1/29/02, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0201290278jan29.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed. | Departure of Michael Dawson for Harvard. |
| January 30 | Bryan Burda | Pam Belluck, "Harvard Adds Black Politics Scholar to Faculty," New York Times, 1/30/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/education/30HARV.html?todaysheadlines. | Departure of Michael Dawson for Harvard. |
| January 31 | Alexander Konetzki | Rod Dreher, "Top Dollar Prof.," National Review Online, 1/11/02, http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher011102.shtml. | Departure of Michael Dawson for Harvard. |
| Feb. 2 | Brett Lettiere | Greg Tate, "Harvard Law Professor Randall Kenedy's Troublesome Word," The Village Voice, week of 1/30/02, http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0205/tate.php. | Review of Kennedy's book. |
| Feb. 2 | Brett Lettiere | Charles Taylor, "The N Word," Salon Magazine, http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/01/22/kennedy/index.html. | Review of Kennedy's book. |
| Feb. 2 | Brett Lettiere | Derek Greenwood, Letter to the Editor, Washington Post, p. A24, 2/1/02. | Comment on best-sellers. |
| Feb. 2 | Adam Andersen | Interview with Michael West, CEO of Advanced Cell Technology, "Talk of the Nation," NPR, 2/1/02, http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=02/01/2002&PrgID=5. | Stem-cell research requires PI comment. |
| Feb. 3 | Cindy Reutzel | Stephen Chapman, Editorial on Sami Al-Arian, Chicago Tribune, Commentary section p. 23, 2/3/02. | Professor Al-Arian was fired for appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor". |
| Feb. 3 | Cindy Reutzel | Tony Smith, "World Social Forum Opens in Brazil," Associated Press, posted by Yahoo, 1/31/02, http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/020131/social_forum_2.html. | Mentions Chomsky. |
| Feb. 3 | Beth OMalley | Interview w/ Sami Al-Arian, "Sami Al-Arian: Victim of Intolerance or Threat to a University's Stability?", Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/6/02, http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/02/alarian/. | Professor Al-Arian was fired for appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor". |
| Feb. 4 | Cindy Reutzel | Thomas Bartlett, "Report Examines Causes and Consequences of Grade Inflation and Uncritical Recommendations," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/4/02. | Grade inflation, re West/Summers. |
| Feb. 4 | Cindy Reutzel | Paul Sabin, "Academe Subverts Young Scholars' Civic Orientation," Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/8/02. | Engaged Scholarship. |
| Feb. 4 | Beth OMalley | Stanley Fish, "Keep Your Eye on the Small Picture," Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/1/02, http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/02/2002020101c.htm. | Engaged scholarship. |
| Feb. 4 | Beth Swierczewski | Unsigned AP story, "Harvard may lose 2nd black scholar," Chicago Sun-Times, 2/4/02, http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-schol04.html. | Departure of Michael Dawson for Harvard. |
| Feb. 4 | Beth Swierczewski | Unsigned AP story, "Historian comes under fire again," Chicago Sun-Times, 2/4/02, http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ambrose04.html. | Ambrose plagiarism scandal. |
| Feb. 4 | Beth Swierczewski | Karen Matthews, "Angelou explains reason she went with Hallmark," Chicago Sun-Times, 2/4/02, http://www.suntimes.com/output/show/cst-fin-hall04.html. | Poet PI at Hallmark. |
| Feb. 5 | Alexander Konetzki | Kate Rakoczy, "In Letter, Faculty Praises ‘Dream Team’," The Harvard Crimson, 2/4/02, http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=161463. | West/Summers. |
| Feb. 5 | Crystal O'Mara | Interview with Norman Mailer on "Newsnight," BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1801000/1801121.stm. | A PI comments on 9/11. |
| Feb. 5 | Crystal O'Mara | Michael Ignatieff, "Is the Human Rights Era Ending?," New York Times, 2/5/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/opinion/05IGNA.html?ex=1013921050&ei=1&en=be6a8d5be3fc1d47. | A PI comments on 9/11. |
| Feb. 5 | Michaela Lawrence | John Cook, "The Defender Staggers," Chicago Tribune, 2/5/02, http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0202050003feb05.story. | The Chicago Defender closing. |
| Feb. 9 | Crystal O'Mara | Eric Foner, "The Education of Abraham Lincoln," New York Times, 2/10/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/books/review/10FONER.html?ex=1014267406&ei=1&en=021dcf6fa3d2dff3. | Review of popular press Abe Lincoln biography by a history professor. |
| Feb. 9 | Bryan Burda | Dinitia Smith, "Creating a Stir Wherever She Goes," New York Times, 2/9/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/arts/09SPIV.html?ex=1014296244&ei=1&en=656b2d6b23fc457a. | Article on "celebrity" professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. |
| Feb. 9 | Bryan Burda | Louis Uchitelle, "Challenging the Dogmas of Free Trade," New York Times, 2/9/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/arts/09GLOB.html?ex=1014296456&ei=1&en=30fcccd6af77320f. | Harvard economist addresses the World Economic Forum. |
| Feb. 9 | Mark Grill | Unsigned article, "More Public, Less Intellectual," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 2/3/02, http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={EC036CD3-8F76-45A7-9D46-384C439238D9}&width=1024&height=740&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4 | German newspaper's "top-100" public intellectuals list. |
| Feb. 9 | Mark Grill | Unsigned article, "Grass Breaks German Taboos," BBC News, 2/8/02, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1808000/1808768.stm. | Nobel winning novelist calls for public discussion of neo-nazism. |
| Feb. 9 | Mark Grill | Richard Merelman, "Dis-Integrating American Public Schools," Education Week, 2/6/02, http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.cfm?slug=21merelman.h21. | Includes a call for public intellectuals to address school integration. |
| Feb. 10 | Brett Lettiere | T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE, "New Books on Edward Abbey, Renegade and Prophet," New York Times, 2/10/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/books/review/10BOYLET.html. | Reviews of two biographies of public intellectual Edward Abbey. |
| Feb. 10 | Adam Andersen | Barbara Ransby, Interview with Michael Dawson on Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ, 2/6/02, http://www.wbez.org/frames.asp?HeaderURL=../schedule/hd_sched.htm&BodyURL=/schedule/848/848.htm. | West/Summers. |
| Feb. 11 | Mark Grill | Baruch Kimmerloing, "I Accuse," Kol Ha'Ir (Israeli Hebrew Weekly), 2/1/02. | An Israeli public intellectual in action. |
| Feb. 11 | Mark Grill | Interview by Mary Lou Finlay w/ Noam Chomsky, CBC radio (Canada), 2/7/02, http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/asithappens/international/noamchomsky_020802.html. | Chomsky visits Turkey to defend his publisher, on trial for attacking "the unity of the Turkish nation." |
| Feb. 11 | Mark Grill | Robert Fisk, "Turkey Targets Chomsky," Z Net (Z Magazine), 1/24/02, http://www.zmag.org/content/Activism/fisk0209.cfm. | Chomsky and Turkey. |
| Feb. 11 | Cindy Reutzel | Richard Posner, "The Professors Profess," The Atlantic Monthly, p.28, Feb. 02. | Posner states his view. |
| Feb. 11 | Alexander Konetzki | Margo Jefferson, "The Critic In Time of War," New York Times, 10/28/01, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/books/review/28JEFFERT.html. | Defense of the importance of intellectuals post 9/11. |
| Feb. 13 | Crystal O'Mara | Julia Lieblich and Karen Rivedal, "Activist Pastor Gets Extension," Chicago Tribune, 2/13/02. | Father Pfleger and St. Sabina. |
| Feb. 14 | Brett Lettiere | Julia Keller, "At Random" slot in Chicago Tribune, Tempo section, p.2. | Mentions of the CHS event (sponsored by CPI) and "Wittgenstein's Poker". |
| Feb. 15 | Adam Andersen | Michael Eric Dyson, speech at International House on Wed. Feb. 20th. | Discussion of Tupac Shakur. |
| Feb. 15 | Adam Andersen | Harold Henderson, "Useless Information," Chicago Reader, sec.1, pp.12-15, 2/15/02. | Discussion of a book about corporate media. |
| Feb. 15 | Beth O'Malley | Michael Kimmelman, "Helplessness and Beauty in the Vision of a Skeptic," New York Times, 2/15/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/arts/design/15KIMM.html?todaysheadlines. | Reviews the work of Gerhard Richter, PI artist. |
| Feb. 17 | Michaela Lawrence | James Alexander, Jr., "America's New 'Kings': The Changing Face of Black Leadership," BlackVoices.com, 2/17/02, http://new.blackvoices.com/features/heritage/bv-heritage2-kings-intro.story?coll=bv%2Dheritage%2Dutility.story. | Relation b/w "Black Leader" and "Black Public Intellectual". |
| Feb. 18 | Cindy Reutzel | Elizabeth Taylor, interview with Ellis Cose, Chicago Tribune, sec. 14 (Books), p.3, 2/17/02. | Cose, a journalist with a book on the experience of the black American male, is a possible PI. |
| Feb. 20 | Beth OMalley | Michael Moore, "George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane: An Open Letter to George W. Bush," The Nation, 2/12/02, http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=moore20020212. | Michael Moore is a possible PI. |
| Feb. 22 | Alexander Konetzki | Bill Bendix, Peter J. Riga, "American Intellectuals: Unsung, Uncited" (letters to the editor), New York Times, 1/24/02. | Discuss Posner. |
| Feb. 24 | Crystal O'Mara | The Associated Press, "More Material Lifted for Kennedy Book," New York Times, 2/24/02, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Goodwin-Book-Mistakes.html?ex=1015577994&ei=1&en=755889f3c63b14bc. | Doris Keans Goodwin plagiarism scandal. |
| Feb. 24 | Adam Andersen | Mark Lilla, "New Rules of Political Rhetoric," New York Times, Op-ed, 2/24/02. | Attack on Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric. |
| Feb. 24 | Brett Lettiere | David L. Evans, "If You're Tired of Jesse And Al, Get Involved," Newsweek, p.12, 2/25/02. | West/Summers |
| Feb. 24 | Crystal O'Mara | Josh Tyrangiel, "Bono's Mission," Time, 2/23/02, http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,212605,00.html . | Bono as public intellectual. |
| Feb. 25 | Michaela Lawrence | Michael Eric Dyson, rap about Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur, Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 PM at Borders Books and Music, 2210 W. 95th. | Public appearance by a PI |
| Feb. 25 | Adam Andersen | Frank Rich, "Ding, Dong, the Cultural Witch Hunt Is Dead," New York Times Magazine, 2/24/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/24BROCK.html. | Article about David Brock, reformed right-wing journalist. |
| Feb. 25 | Cindy Reutzel | Carlin Romano, "Critic At Large," The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, 2/8/02. | Amusing review of Posner. |
| Feb. 26 | Dozthor Zurlent | Gustavo Gutierrez, public lecture at Dominican University at 7 Tues, Feb. 26, Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest . | Public appearance by a PI |
| Feb. 26 | Dozthor Zurlent | Howard Kurtz, "Right and Wrong," Washington Post, 2/26/02, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2238-2002Feb25.html. | Article about David Brock, reformed right-wing journalist. |
| Mar. 1 | Beth OMalley | Norman Solomon, "New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit," Media Beat, 2/21/02, http://www.fair.org/media-beat/020221.html. | NYTimes columnist and pundit (and PI?) Thomas Friedman. |
| Mar. 1 | Adam Andersen | Nicholas Kristof, "Putting Us to the Test," New York Times, 3/1/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/opinion/01KRIS.html. | Op/Ed piece on Al-Arian. |
| Mar. 1 | Mark Grill | Tom Frank, "The God That Sucked," The Baffler, No. 14, http://www.thebaffler.org/. | Mentions Barbara Ehrenreich. |
| Mar. 1 | Mark Grill | Stanley Fish, "You Probably Think This Song Is About You," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/1/02, http://chronicle.com/jobs/2002/03/2002030101c.htm. | Column. |
| Mar. 1 | Crystal O'Mara | Gerald Early, "Black Intellectuals Seek the Way Out of Here," New York Times, 3/3/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/review/03EARLYT.html?rd=hcmcp?p=042Wc4042WbY4SFre012000mD9R4D9S_&pagewanted=print. | Book reviews. |
| Mar. 3 | Brett Lettiere | Mathew Price, "The Unruly Passions of the Mind," Chicago Tribune, 3/3/02, Sec. 14 "Books," p. 1, 3. | Rev. of Wittgenstein's Poker. |
| Mar. 4 | Beth OMalley | Karen Arenson, "Labor Board Rules That N.Y.U. Denied Tenure to Union Backer," New York Times, 2/28/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/education/28NYU.html. | NYU accused of denying tenure b/c prof. testified for grad student unionization. |
| Mar. 4 | Adam Andersen | Anne Midgette, "Responding to Crisis, Art Must Look Beyond It," New York Times, 3/3/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/arts/03MIDG.html. | Call for artists to be PIs. |
| Mar. 5 | Dozthor Zurlent | David Blankenhorn, "Letter from America signed by 60 American intellectuals", PropositionsOnline, 2/12/02, http://www.propositionsonline.com/Latest/Fighting_For/fighting_for.html. | Commentary on 9/11 by American intellectuals. |
| Mar. 5 | Alice Brown | Jim Ritter, "Science of Making Babies Challenged," Chicago Sun-Times, 3/5/02, http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bio05.html. | Cardinal George comments on reproductive science. |
| Mar. 5 | Dozthor Zurlent | David North, "Political reaction and intellectual charlatanry: US academics issue statement in support of war," World Socialist Web Site, 2/18/02, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/war-f18.shtml. | Comment on the "Letter from America." |
| Mar. 5 | Beth OMalley | Umberto Eco, "Quelli che "capiscono" Bin Laden," EspressoOnlince, http://www.espressonline.kataweb.it/ESW_articolo/0,2393,27831,00.html. | PI Eco comments on bin Laden. |
| Mar. 9 | Mark Grill | Edward Rothstein, "Plagiarism That Doesn't Add Up," New York Times, 3/9/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/arts/09CONN.html. | Another popular writer accused of plagiarism. |
| Mar. 11 | Cindy Reutzel | Richard Posner, The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002, p.23. | Comment on plagiarism. |
| Mar. 11 | Georgina Tegart | Linton Weeks, "A Case of Strange Book-Keeping," Washington Post, 3/7/02, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51631-2002Mar6.html. | Author accused of buying his own book to inflate sales figures. |
| Mar. 11 | Georgina Tegart | Eliza Truitt, "The Book Industry's Best-Seller Lists," Slate, 9/3/98, http://slate.msn.com/?id=3504. | The reality behind "best sellers." |
| Mar. 11 | Mark Grill | Amnesty International, (unsigned article), "The Death Penalty in America," http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/greggvgeorgia/. | Amnesty Int. against the death penalty. |
| Mar. 12 | Brett Lettiere | Alex van Oss, "Who Controls Museums?", NPR Morning Edition, 3/12/02. | Discussion of donor influence on museum policy. |
| Mar. 13 | Alex Konetzki | Zoë Francesca, "Society's Failure: A Conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich," On the Page Magazine, winter 2001-2002, http://www.onthepage.org/failure/interview_with_barbara_ehrenreich.htm. | Interview with BE. |
| Mar. 13 | Adam Galluppi | Scott Fornek, "Writer Turow to lead Wood's appeal to Dems," Chicago Sun-Times, 3/13/02, http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-pol13.html. | Scott Turow supports Corinne Wood for Gov. |
| Mar. 14 | Alice Brown | Susan Sontag, public lecture at Art Institute of Chicago. Story about her in Chicago Sun-Times, 3/14/02, p.44. | Sontag haunted by her post 9/11 criticisms of US. |
| Mar. 14 | Beth OMalley | Michael Moore, public lecture at Walter Payton HS, 7p, 3/14/02. | Author of Stupid White Men. |
| Mar. 14 | Sean Starr | Danny Hakim, "Clergyman Is Accused of Plagiarism," New York Times, 3/13/02, http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F30916FD395D0C708DDDAA0894DA404482. | Re historians accused of plagiarism. |
| Mar. 21 | Cindy Reutzel | Robert Becker, article on commercial pressure on academic presses , 3/17/02. | (No title or page number supplied.) |
| Mar. 22 | Adam Galluppi | Julia Lieblich, "Pope rebukes pedophile priests ," Chicago Tribune, 3/22/02, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/index.html?ts=1019438108. | The Pope as PI? |
| Mar. 24 | Brett Lettiere | Frank Bruni , "'Blinded by the Right': David Brock Takes It Back," NYTimes, 3/24/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/books/review/24BRUNIT.html. | Right wing journalist "kiss and tell" book. |
| Mar. 24 | Crystal O'Mara | Unsigned AP story, "Excerpts From Kennedy Books by Lynne McTaggart and Doris Kearns Goodwin ," AP News, 3/23/02, http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGADN7HR5ZC.html. | More dirt on DKGoodwin. |
| Mar. 25 | Beth OMalley | Unsigned Web page, "Veterans to Begin "Bishops Fast"," by School of the Americas Watch, an organization that believes that the School of the Americas in Georgia trains assassins, http://www.soaw.org/Articles/current%2520info/new/bishopsfast.htm. | School founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois as PI? |
| Mar. 25 | Brett Lettiere | Tackett, Michael. "Blue-Collar Man is Next Voter to Woo: Both Parties Covet 'Lunchbucket Joe.'" Chicago Tribune 24 March 2001, Final ed., sec. 1: 1+. | Blue collar voters rediscovered. |
| Mar. 26 | Beth OMalley | Fidel Castro, "Cuba," speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico 18th-22nd March 2002, http://www.un.org/ffd/statements/cubaE.htm. | Fidel as PI? |
| Mar. 26 | Dozthor Zurlent | PBS, "People Like Us," a link to the Web site for this video: http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/. | We saw this in class. |
| Mar. 27 | Dozthor Zurlent | Barbara Ehrenreich, "Libation as Liberation?," Time Magazine, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020401-220005,00.html. | BE mentioned this in class. |
| Mar. 27 | Dozthor Zurlent | Confernce "COLOMBIA: NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE FROM THE BOTTOM UP," at DePaul Univ. Chicago, April 5-7. | PIs in action. |
| Mar. 28 | Alexander Konetzki | Richard Posner, "On Plagiarism," The Atlantic, April 02, http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/posner.htm. | |
| Mar. 28 | Cindy Reutzel | University Press of Mississippi initiates a series of books called the "Conversations With Public Intellectuals Series". | (unreferenced) |
| Mar. 28 | Dozthor Zurlent | Houston Baker, "Remembering Race: Dr. Martin Luther King and the Betrayal of Black Intellectuals." lecture at the Humanities Institute at UIC, 4/17. | Baker is an English prof. at Duke. |
| Apr. 1 | Brett Lettiere | Unsigned editorial, "Pricing the Poor Out of College," NYTimes, 3/27/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/opinion/_27WED2.html. | |
| Apr. 1 | Bryan Burda | Emily Eakin, " Listening for the Voices of Women," NYTimes, 3/30/02. | Has Carol Gilligan's reputation suffered from popularity? |
| Apr. 1 | Rob Sevier | Tribute to Paulo Freire at Natioanl-Louis Univ., http://www.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Freire.html. | Educatior and PI. |
| Apr. 3 | Alexander Konetzki | Florida Atlantic University's home page for its PI PhD program: http://www.publicintellectuals.fau.edu/. | |
| Apr. 3 | Alexander Konetzki | Joseph Epstein, "Intellectuals--Public and Otherwise," Commentary, May 2000, http://www.findarticles.com/m1061/5_109/61933375/p1/article.jhtml. | History and analysis of PIs. |
| Apr. 4 | Brett Lettiere | Perotin, Maria M. "Salary Discussion Often not What Employers Want." Chicago Tribune 3 April 2002, final, sec. 6: 5. | Employer coercion. |
| Apr. 5 | Beth OMalley | Jawad Naeem, "From Britain to Bosnia, Pakistani's anti-US hatred grew ," The Christian Science Monitor 4/5/02, http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p07s02-wosc.html. | Account of the accused murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl. He claims to have been influenced by Harvard Prof. Samual Huntington. |
| Apr. 6 | Brett Lettiere | Conklin, Mike, and Marja Mills. "Winfrey Turns Page in Cutting Book Picks." Chicago Tribune 6 April 2002, Sec. 1: 1+. | Oprah's book club cancelled. |
| Apr. 9 | Alexander Konetzki | James Giles, "The End of Philosophy," Cross Currents, Spr. 2000, http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2096/2000_Spring-Summer/63300894/p1/article.jhtml. | Has academization ruined philosophy? |
| Apr. 15 | Stanley Fish | Lynn Barber, "Look who's talking," The Observer, 4/14/02. | Interview with PI Christopher Hitchens. |
| Apr. 16 | Alice C. Brown | Julia Keller, "College Students Get A+ For Their Interest In Social Justice." Chicago Tribune, 4/16/02, Tempo sec., p.2. | Report on LAS400!! |
| Apr. 16 | David Potts | Unsigned editorial, "Oprah Demurs," NYTimes, 4/10/02, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/opinion/_10WED3.html. | Oprah's book club cancelled. |
| Apr. 16 | Cindy Reutzel | Unsigned AP story, "West: Colleague Leaning Toward Move," 4/15/02. | West moves to Princeton. |
| Apr. 18 | Georgina Tegart | Timothy Noah, "Cornel West Whine Watch: Wherein the celebrity professor maps the frontiers of self-pity," Slate, 4/16/02, http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064381. | Criticism of West. |
| Apr. 18 | Michaela Lawrence | Ricky Hill, Cathy J. Cohen, Mack Jones and Maulana Karenga, panel discussion of "Black intellectuals in the American Academy and Lessons of the Harvard University/Cornel West Encounter:The Black Studies Response." Apr. 19, Univ. of Chicago black studies conference, http://www.culturelab.net/OHBSC25/ | West/Summers. |
| Apr. 18 | Brett Lettiere | A media sighting? PI trading cards, action figures, etc.!: http://www.theorycards.org.uk/; http://www.theory.org.uk/lego.htm; http://www.theory.org.uk/action.htm. | |
| Apr. 21 | Brett Lettiere | Keller, Julia. "Why Authors Get Hot." Chicago Tribune 21 April 2002, sec. 7 "Arts": 1+. | PI Gerald Graff quoted. |