"To call for a return to nature is posturing," Mr. White writes, arguing against unnamed intellectual opponents who are, apparently, making that call.

Pinker's intellectual opponents may feel he is overgenerous to his own side.

A pagan scholar and philosopher, Hypatia was wise, virtuous, adored by those who flocked to hear her and a fearsome match for any intellectual opponent.

In the 1930s Niebuhr was often seen as an intellectual opponent of John Dewey.

Locke had other intellectual opponents besides Hobbes.

Thus these words were not around when Napoleon Bonaparte took the word "ideologues" to ridicule his intellectual opponents.

Ramanuja Kavirayar was greatly admired by his pupils, and respected by the most distinguished of his scholastic and intellectual opponents.

Like his brothers, he often used harsh language when responding to intellectual opponents.

What I do know is that the arguments advanced by fast track's intellectual opponents are stunningly specious.

Hamann was a Pietist Lutheran, and a friend (while being an intellectual opponent) of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.