These three men have deeply influenced
how I think as an academic.
Find out why by watching our Truth in Two (full text below).
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What does it mean to be a “public intellectual?” People who shape cultural change through their conversations about ideas. I want to introduce our Truth in Two viewers to a few public intellectuals who have, and continue to, shape my life.
(1) Thomas Sowell. Sowell grew up in Harlem and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Sowell is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. Sowell’s ideas have taken root in the soil of the next generation. Sowell has written over thirty books, over forty years of weekly writings. Hundreds of Sowell’s interviews can be found on YouTube. The lifetime impact of Thomas Sowell can be read in the book, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell.
(2) Robert Woodson. Woodson was born in Philadelphia. Woodson is an Air Force veteran and has a long history in the Civil Rights movement. Woodson has brought together a cadre of black scholars who create transformational ideas. Together, they believe that the country best able to deliver opportunities for success is the United States of America. 1776 Unites has created curriculum to teach both the history of our country and its opportunities for people today.
(3) Glenn Loury. Loury is a descendent of slaves, grew up on Chicago’s south side and is now an eminent economist who teaches at Brown University. Loury’s podcast “The Glenn Show” deals with all manner of cultural ideas. Loury’s self-description, speaks for itself: [Quote] I am an economist who believes in the virtue of free enterprise. I am a patriot who loves his country. I am a man of the West, an inheritor of its great traditions. As an intellectual, I seek to know the truth, and to speak truths I have been given to know. [End quote]
I couldn’t have said it better myself. For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking public intellectuals who point to truth wherever it’s found.
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