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Zero wrote:When I first started taking political science courses, the first thing I did was start looking up citations; most of these people appear to circle jerk each other with them. They all say the same crap, and with some notable exceptions, it's basically useless.
Oh, and this looks interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powellism
I think I can get behind this powell fellow's ideas.
... Powell's dislike of the United States was planted. After talking with some senior American officials, he became convinced that one of America's main war aims was to destroy the British Empire. Writing home on 16 February 1943, Powell said: "I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were... our terrible enemy, America...."
RYP wrote:Sorry Jumper you didn't make it this year....Turkish and Islamic scholars head the list... Al Gore only came in at 12th!
List: the 100 leading intellectuals
World's top thinkers according to a survey by Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines
* guardian.co.uk,
* Monday June 23, 2008
1 Fethullah Gulen
2 Muhammad Yunus
3 Yusuf al-Qaradawi
4 Orhan Pamuk
5 Aitzaz Ahsan
6 Amr Khaled
7 Abdolkarim Soroush
8 Tariq Ramadan
9 Mahmood Mamdani
10 Shirin Ebadi
11 Noam Chomsky
12 Al Gore
13 Bernard Lewis
14 Umberto Eco
15 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
16 Amartya Sen
17 Fareed Zakaria
18 Garry Kasparov
19 Richard Dawkins
20 Mario Vargas Llosa
21 Lee Smolin
22 Jürgen Habermas
23 Salman Rushdie
24 Sari Nusseibeh
25 Slavoj Zizek
26 Vaclav Havel
27 Christopher Hitchens
28 Samuel Huntington
29 Peter Singer
30 Paul Krugman
31 Jared Diamond
32 Pope Benedict XVI
33 Fan Gang
34 Michael Ignatieff
35 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
36 Lilia Shevtsova
37 Charles Taylor
38 Martin Wolf
39 EO Wilson
40 Thomas Friedman
41 Bjorn Lomborg
42 Daniel Dennett
43 Francis Fukuyama
44 Ramachandra Guha
45 Tony Judt
46 Steven Levitt
47 Nouriel Roubini
48 Jeffrey Sachs
49 Wang Hui
50 VS Ramachandran
51 Drew Gilpin Faust
52 Lawrence Lessig
53 JM Coetzee
54 Fernando Savater
55 Wole Soyinka
56 Yan Xuetong
57 Steven Pinker
58 Alma Guillermoprieto
59 Sunita Narain
60 Anies Baswedan
61 Michael Walzer
62 Niall Ferguson
63 George Ayittey
64 Ashis Nandy
65 David Petraeus
66 Olivier Roy
67 Lawrence Summers
68 Martha Nussbaum
69 Robert Kagan
70 James Lovelock
71 J Craig Venter
72 Amos Oz
73 Samantha Power
74 Lee Kuan Yew
75 Hu Shuli
76 Kwame Anthony Appiah
77 Malcolm Gladwell
78 Alexander De Waal
79 Gianni Riotta
80 Daniel Barenboim
81 Thérèse Delpech
82 William Easterly
83 Minxin Pei
84 Richard Posner
85 Ivan Krastev
86 Enrique Krauze
87 Anne Applebaum
88 Rem Koolhaas
89 Jacques Attali
90 Paul Collier
91 Esther Duflo
92 Michael Spence
93 Robert Putnam
94 Harold Varmus
95 Howard Gardner
96 Daniel Kahneman
97 Yegor Gaidar
98 Neil Gershenfeld
99 Alain Finkielkraut
100 Ian Buruma
flipflop wrote:It's still Enoch Powell.
And he tops the list of prophecies too, because if a shitskin immigrant driving a truck full speed through a crowd in Nice doesn't represent 'Rivers of Blood' what does?
Cheers
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