While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.
More than 400 intellectuals and students had demonstrated against the regime in a Capuchin monastery on the outskirts of Barcelona and were surrounded by police for two days.
—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
As a young woman, Stanton frequently visited her cousin Gerrit Smith, a militant abolitionist and an ally of John Brown, whose house in Peterboro, New York, was a hotbed for radical intellectuals.
The five-day festival includes an eclectic mix of talks from leading writers, thinkers and speakers.
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Irenie Forshaw,
TheWeek,
26 Mar. 2026
Supporters say introductory courses had become too focused on contemporary social-justice frameworks and that the new standards restore an emphasis on classical thinkers, empirical methods and a broader range of perspectives.
Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.
Of all the wizards of modern AI, Amodei, the theoretical physicist who founded Anthropic, maker of Claude, is the most publicly anxious about the impact of his product on the world at large, seemingly spooked by his own predictions.
—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Only the best of the bat-to-ball wizards can build a career in the majors.
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