Public Intellectuals and the Public Interest: Toward a Politics of Political Science as a Calling

about penguins than I wanted to know." There is a lot of information in Professor Etzioni's autobiography, but I still do not know what public intellectual means. Immediately upon reading his article, I asked myself, how is a public intellectual to be distinguished from a private intellectual? Having opened the box, it was only logical to ask, "What kinds of intellectuals are there?" And I am not alone in