What's Wrong With A List Of The World's 100 Top "Public Intellectuals"
"The real problem, of course, is the magnificent double oxymoron inherent in the enterprise. First, you should not rank 'public intellectuals', whatever they might be, in the manner of one of those television top-40 countdown programmes... It is the most quintessentially anti-intellectual notion." The Times (UK) 05/05/08

Posted May 4, 2008 10:41 AM