An intermediate
case, a kind of semipublic intellectual, is one who has a day job as a political or corporate consultant, a politician, or a judge or other government official," while writing on the side for a general audience. Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Patrick Moynihan, and Newt Gingrich are examples of the public intellectual as politician. Kissinger, William Bennett, William Kristol, Moynihan (during the Nixon administration), Lawrence Summers, and William Galston are examples of public intellectuals as government officials."
