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Journalist

has defined a "knowledge journalist" as a public intellectual who, like Walter Lippmann, David Brooks, Fareed Zakaria, Naomi Klein, Michael Pollan, Thomas Friedman, and Andrew Revkin, sees their role as researching complicated issues of fact or science which most laymen would not have the time or access to information to research themselves, then communicating an accurate and understandable version to the public as a teacher and policy advisor.

Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Paul Goodman Changed My Life is the first documentary feature about Paul Goodman, social activist, lay psychologist, public intellectual and author best known for Growing Up Absurd.


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Aleida Guevara

She also participates as public intellectual and activist in conferences, debates and festivals, such as the Subversive Festival on May 4–8, 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, where she is guest speaker next to other notable public thinkers like Slavoj Zizek and Tariq Ali.

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, born on June 8, 1979 at Alamata, Tigray, formerly Wollo, Ethiopia, is a young public intellectual.

Chris Puplick

Christopher John Guelph "Chris" Puplick AM (born 13 May 1948) is an Australian politician, public servant and public intellectual.

Gurcharan

Gurcharan Das, Indian author, commentator and public intellectual

Yuri Andrukhovych

For his literary writings and activity as a public intellectual, Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Herder Prize (2001), the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2005), the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for European Understanding (2006), and the Angelus Prize (also 2006).