
…is spectacularly. A decade ago the New Atheists were able to do this to a greater or lesser degree. This reflection will include an inquiry into what it means to be a successful public intellectual and will draw from the example of Renaissance Humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), the first great public intellectual of the West at a time when the first great international media technology (the printed word) led to a proliferation of both connectivity and literacy to degrees unknown in previous generations.
We hear from the president of the United States that the weather changes all the time. He still conflates weather and climate, which is on purpose. There are doubts about the climate emergency from certain quarters, because there is a lot of money…