Top 100 most important living public intellectuals.

[Sovereign]

According to Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy magazine;

Noam Chomsky
Umberto Eco
Richard Dawkins
Václav Havel
Christopher Hitchens
Paul Krugman
Jürgen Habermas
Amartya Sen
Jared Diamond
Salman Rushdie
Naomi Klein
Shirin Ebadi
Hernando de Soto
Bjørn Lomborg
Abdolkarim Soroush
Thomas Friedman
Brandon Rhea
Pope Benedict XVI
Eric Hobsbawm
Paul Wolfowitz
Camille Paglia
Francis Fukuyama
Jean Baudrillard
Slavoj Zizek
Daniel Dennett
Freeman Dyson
Steven Pinker
Jeffrey Sachs
Samuel Huntington
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ali al-Sistani
Edward O. Wilson
Richard Posner
Peter Singer
Bernard Lewis
Fareed Zakaria
Gary Becker
Michael Ignatieff
Chinua Achebe
Anthony Giddens
Lawrence Lessig
Richard Rorty
Jagdish Bhagwati
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
JM Coetzee
Niall Ferguson
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Steven Weinberg
Julia Kristeva
Germaine Greer
Antonio Negri
Rem Koolhaas
Timothy Garton Ash
Martha Nussbaum
Orhan Pamuk
Clifford Geertz
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tariq Ramadan
Amos Oz
Larry Summers
Hans Küng
Robert Kagan
Paul Kennedy
Daniel Kahneman
Sari Nusseibeh
Wole Soyinka
Kemal Derviş
Michael Walzer
Gao Xingjian
Howard Gardner
James Lovelock
Robert Hughes
Ali Mazrui
Craig Venter
Martin Rees
James Q. Wilson
Robert Putnam
Peter Sloterdijk
Sergei Karaganov
Sunita Narain
Alain Finkielkraut
Fan Gang
Florence Wambugu
Gilles Kepel
Enrique Krauze
Ha Jin
Neil Gershenfeld
Paul Ekman
Jaron Lanier
Gordon Conway
Pavol Demes
Elaine Scarry
Robert Cooper
Harold Varmus
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Zheng Bijian
Kenichi Ohmae
Wang Jisi
Kishore Mahbubani
Shintaro Ishihara

Noam Chomsky is number 1 and Michael Ignatieff isn't doing bad as well.

I wonder what the Pope is doing though.

 

[Wing]

That is a pretty decent list.

 

[Ser Gregor]

Why is Dawkins 3? And Ignatieff is on it, cool.

 

[Sovereign]

Why is Dawkins 3? And Ignatieff is on it, cool.

Yeah, seriously. He's one notch higher than Havel, which is unacceptable imo.

 

[Galykia]

According to Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy magazine;

Noam Chomsky
Umberto Eco
George W. Bush
Richard Dawkins
Václav Havel
Christopher Hitchens
Paul Krugman
Jürgen Habermas
Amartya Sen
Jared Diamond
Salman Rushdie
Naomi Klein
Shirin Ebadi
Hernando de Soto
Bjørn Lomborg
Abdolkarim Soroush
Thomas Friedman
Pope Benedict XVI
Eric Hobsbawm
Paul Wolfowitz
Camille Paglia
Francis Fukuyama
Jean Baudrillard
Slavoj Zizek
Daniel Dennett
Freeman Dyson
Steven Pinker
Jeffrey Sachs
Samuel Huntington
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ali al-Sistani
Edward O. Wilson
Richard Posner
Peter Singer
Bernard Lewis
Fareed Zakaria
Gary Becker
Michael Ignatieff
Chinua Achebe
Anthony Giddens
Lawrence Lessig
Richard Rorty
Jagdish Bhagwati
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
JM Coetzee
Niall Ferguson
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Steven Weinberg
Julia Kristeva
Germaine Greer
Antonio Negri
Rem Koolhaas
Timothy Garton Ash
Martha Nussbaum
Orhan Pamuk
Clifford Geertz
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tariq Ramadan
Amos Oz
Larry Summers
Hans Küng
Robert Kagan
Paul Kennedy
Daniel Kahneman
Sari Nusseibeh
Wole Soyinka
Kemal Derviş
Michael Walzer
Gao Xingjian
Howard Gardner
James Lovelock
Robert Hughes
Ali Mazrui
Craig Venter
Martin Rees
James Q. Wilson
Robert Putnam
Peter Sloterdijk
Sergei Karaganov
Sunita Narain
Alain Finkielkraut
Fan Gang
Florence Wambugu
Gilles Kepel
Enrique Krauze
Ha Jin
Neil Gershenfeld
Paul Ekman
Jaron Lanier
Gordon Conway
Pavol Demes
Elaine Scarry
Robert Cooper
Harold Varmus
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Zheng Bijian
Kenichi Ohmae
Wang Jisi
Kishore Mahbubani
Shintaro Ishihara

Noam Chomsky is number 1 and Michael Ignatieff isn't doing bad as well.

I wonder what the Pope is doing though.

WTF Is up with #3 on the list?!?!?!?!!??!!?
Jk.

I think paul Kennedy would be higher, but then again I dont know a lot of the people above him...

 

[The Count of Monte Cristo]

Is it bad I have only heard of like 5 of these people. :CCry2:

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Václav Havel has one of my favorite quotes: "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

 

[Ser Yorick]

Where the **** is my name?

 

[Tsar Fire]

According to Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy magazine;

Noam Chomsky
Umberto Eco
Richard Dawkins
Václav Havel
Christopher Hitchens
Paul Krugman.

? Why Dawkins?

Didn't he just write some irritating books to tick off christians?

Or is he a scientist?

I havn't heard much about him...

 

[Ser Gregor]

? Why Dawkins?

Didn't he just write some irritating books to tick off christians?

Or is he a scientist?

I havn't heard much about him...

Uhm, no. That's like saying Tolkien was 'just a writer', or MLK was 'just some black guy' (not to compare MLK's accomplishments and message of good will and equality to Dawkin's stuff).

 

[Fynar]

Quite an interesting list though I don't agree with it. I don't like that the pope in on there.

 

[Rev]

Wheres Stephen Colbert?

HE HAS HIS OWN NATION! HIS OWN NATION!

 

[Flame]

? Why Dawkins?

Didn't he just write some irritating books to tick off christians?

Or is he a scientist?

I havn't heard much about him...

Dawkins is a biologist with an amazing accent. He's worked very hard to explain the theory and laws of evolution.

 

[Ser Gregor]

Dawkins is a biologist with an amazing accent. He's worked very hard to explain the theory and laws of evolution.

But he's a little to much of a "I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG LALALALALA" kind of guy. He has his faults.

 

[Flame]

But he's a little to much of a "I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG LALALALALA" kind of guy. He has his faults.

As do we all. Some people called Einstein close-minded too yah know. ;)

 

[Sovereign]

Dawkins is a biologist with an amazing accent. He's worked very hard to explain the theory and laws of evolution.

Who are you and what have you done to Arcane?

-_-

 

[Flame]

Who are you and what have you done to Arcane?

-_-

I respect him for his accomplishments that he's made in life and his discoveries. I can't pin down what he's done in his life and the entirety of his actions but many of his arguments are quite logical. Some of them are straw man arguments though too.

 

[jediduncan]

Chinua Achebe

**** him. I'm tired of reading about his thoughts on Joseph Conrad. As if Heart of Darkness wasn't boring enough by itself.

 

[Lavi]

Is it bad that the only name I recognize on the spot is the Pope's?

 

[Cailst]

Is it bad that the only name I recognize on the spot is the Pope's?

I guess it's a little bad. Maybe you should go to the library more often or simply go to Amazon and you should come across a lot of writers. Your problem should be easily fixable.