Mexican Intellectuals and the Indian Question, 1876-1911

Diaspora , Intellectuals , and the State

NO AREA OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE ILLUST"TES THE ANXIOUS MEETING of state policy and cultural mythology more than illegal immigration. As once-con#dent national polities in Europe and the United States su$er a series of economic shocks, a backlash has gathered momentum, targeting the imported labor that in many ways symbolizes the so% core of the old regimes’ economic foundations. A variety of extre...

Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics

Intellectuals and New Technologies

Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...

Mexican Experience in Spanish Question Answering

Nowadays, due to the great advances in communication and storage media, there is more information available than ever before. This information can satisfy almost every information need; nevertheless, without the appropriate manage facilities, all of it is practically useless. This fact has motivated the emergence of several text processing applications that help in accessing large document coll...

Terrorism and health: the responsibility of intellectuals?