Achievement Quote by Alan Sokal

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

— Zephyr Teachout

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the…

— Chris Patten

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom rings across…

— Gary L. Bauer

Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold…

— Tony Auth

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.”

— J.C. Ryan

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not…

— Patrick Dempsey

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan