He's a string theorist.

I'm back to theorist again.

Now, I'm going try an experiment. I don't do experiments, normally. I'm a theorist.

Now let me take you I've been a realist I went from theorist early to realist.

And we get it not from a philosopher of art, not from a postmodern art theorist or a bigwig art critic.

And so the theorist guys say, well, I think this is what's going on, and the experimentalist says, no, you're wrong.

Secondly, a political theorist who's going to talk about the crisis of democracy is probably not the most exciting topic you can think about.

CA But a string theorist, as I understand it, explains electrons in terms of much smaller strings vibrating I know you don't like string theory vibrating inside it.

Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.

And one of the most beautiful descriptions I've come across in this research of how minds interpenetrate was written by a great theorist and scientist named Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana.

Overt military imperialism of the Soviet sort has, at least historically, rarely been the Chinese way. Sun Tzu, the great Chinese theorist of warfare, focused on the weakening of an adversary psychologically, not in battle.

Recently, a wise media theorist Tweeted, The 19th century culture was defined by the novel, the 20th century culture was defined by the cinema, and the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface.

Many people in Europe seem to believe that Varoufakis, an experienced game theorist but a political neophyte, does not know how to play the cards that Greece has been dealt. They should think again before Greece walks away with the pot.

In a speech marking the Great Helmsman s 110th birthday in late 2003, he declared Mao to be a great proletariat revolutionary strategist and theorist. While Deng had castigated Mao s leftist errors, Hu s hagiographic address made no mention of his manifold blunders.

But what moral obligation does this place on a particular leader like Obama? The leadership theorist Barbara Kellerman has accused former US President Bill Clinton of the moral failure of insularity for his inadequate response to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

As the urban studies theorist Richard Florida has argued, it is technology and tolerance that attract talents. Europe should therefore become a magnet for creative people from all over the world and should, based on its rich cultural heritage, raise its own.

According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Putin regime s leading ideologist, the current Russian system is perfect in all respects but one it doesn t know its enemies. Indeed, it seems as if everyone in the Kremlin is reading Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal theorist who taught that naming your enemy is the central mission of politics.

Five great revolutions have shaped political culture over the past 50 years, says theorist Ivan Krastev. He shows how each step forward from the cultural revolution of the 60s to recent revelations in the field of neuroscience has also helped erode trust in the tools of democracy. As he says, What went right is also what went wrong. Can democracy survive?

Nor are the Chinese casual and infrequent Internet users. Consistent with what the social network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society s penchant for unlocking the cognitive surplus embedded in net based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online a full hour longer than the average 15 49 year old Chinese citizen spends watching television.

Nor are the Chinese casual and infrequent Internet users. Consistent with what the social network theorist Clay Shirky has dubbed a society s penchant for unlocking the cognitive surplus embedded in net based activities, survey data from the China Internet Network Information Center suggest that Chinese netizens log an average of 2.6 hours per day online a full hour longer than the average 15 49 year old Chinese citizen spends watching television. 160