Would be fun to compare to the list of a hundred in, "The American Intellectual Elite, " by Charles Kadushin, published in 1974.
http://www.google.com/search?q=American+Intellectual+Elite+Kadushin+ Michael Pugliese >--- Original Message --- >From: Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 1/20/02 8:32:21 PM > >Kissinger rated No 1 brain > >Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles >Monday January 21, 2002 >The Guardian > >There are lists of the best films and the best cricketers and the best books. There are even books >of lists of lists. But the latest list to be published might prove to be one too far. > >A list of the world's supposed top 100 public intellectuals is provoking very uncerebral rows over >the dinner tables of American academia. > >One reason for the debate is that at the top of the list is the former US secretary of state Henry >Kissinger - prominent at the moment as the subject of a Christopher Hitchens book, The Trial of >Henry Kissinger, in which he is accused of crimes against humanity. > >Tom Wolfe, the novelist and social commentator, features at number 15, way ahead of Jean-Paul Sartre >(64), Marshal McLuhan (82) and Margaret Mead (94). At number eight is Sidney Blumenthal, the White >House aide during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. > >Antonin Scalia, the member of the US supreme court who helped to ease George Bush into office, is at >number 14, three places ahead of George Bernard Shaw. Camille Paglia, the writer and >controversialist, is at 66, beating out John Kenneth Galbraith (69) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (72). > >Those challenging Kissinger for top place include Salman Rushdie (9), George Orwell (11), Vaclav >Havel (18) and Timothy Leary (28). The feminist theorist Betty Friedan is at number 48 but Germaine >Greer fails to make the cut. > >Richard Posner, a US federal judge, compiled the list, entitled Public Intellectuals: A Study in >Decline, using the internet to count the number of media mentions of anyone who expressed themselves >on matters of general public concern between 1995 and 2000. Mr Posner manages to enter the list at a >respectable 70, six ahead of Albert Camus. > >
