An Inside Look At...IntellectualCapital.com

[robert_allen]

"Today's Ideas...Tomorrow's Policies": that is the motto of IntellectualCapital.com , the cutting edge online political magazine that is the brainchild of former Republican congressman and Delaware governor Pete du Pont. The concept behind IntellectualCapital.com is novel: use the Internet to create an ongoing worldwide interactive public policy debate. Updated every Thursday, IntellectualCapital.com features original columns from commentators ranging from the staunchly conservative to the radically liberal.
The columns are written by those in the know; IntellectualCapital.com's 40 regular contributors include Washington Post columnist James Glassman, Economic editor for the BBC and former British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Jay, former Illinois senator Paul Simon, former national security advisor to President Carter Zbigniew Brezezinski, ACLU President Nadine Strossen, former Senator and U.S. presidential nominee George McGovern and White House speechwriter and bestselling author Peggy Noonan. Each column has a bulletin board attached at the end for reader responses, which have proven to be quite popular with a broad spectrum of readers from all walks of life. By all accounts, the experiment has been a raging success. Celebrating its one year anniversary on the Web in June, 1997, this web magazine has attracted global attention with an ever-increasing viewership. The free-for-all style of the debates between the most liberal columnists to the most conservative mirror the style of du Pont himself, who is known for his candor and "no holds barred" approach when discussing policy issues. Pete du Pont spoke with us about his vision for IntellectualCapital.com, the role of the Internet as a force for political, economic and social change in today's world as well as serious issues affecting all Netizens such as encryption and taxation of the Internet.



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