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“You Might Be a Public Intellectual If…”: A Checklist for Political Scientists, a Challenge for Political Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2010

Jacob S. Hacker
Affiliation:
Yale University

Extract

Amitai Etzioni has written something of a pocket guide for public intellectuals, proffering hard-won lessons from his own time in the trenches. I wish that I had read his primer before I tried to break into the club. And I hope that PS readers seeking to be PI players read his guide with the right mix of humor, curiosity, and skepticism about the rules of success that Etzioni evinces.

Type
Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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