The notion that public intellectuals in the U.S. are in decline has again become fashionable with their portrayal as trapped between Academe and the real world. The questions addressed by this volume are: How can the voices of scholars and erudite thinkers penetrate the globalized, corporate media and how does media receive and represent the contribution of intellectuals to the academic and public spheres. We pose these questions all the while recognizing with Paul Bove the the nonidentity of intellectuals as a group.