"Who are the world's top public intellectuals?"

Prospect magazine is running an online poll with 100 names (guess who won the poll when done in 2005?). Canadians included are Michael Ignatieff (Mickey I. finished 37th in 2005), Steven Pinker (26th), and Charles Taylor (new). Naomi Klein was, gasp, listed in 2005 and, gasp, finished 11th. She has thankfully not been included this year.

You can vote for five; voting closes May 15. You can comment:

...please don’t be shy about letting us know how absurd/barbaric/sexist/anglocentric you find our selection, in the comments below. But be warned! The wittiest and/or most caustic responses may well find their way on to our letters page.

What's Mickey I. done over the last three years to warrant continued inclusion? Is that a public intellectual you see before you during the Commons' question period? Surely one mea culpa in the NY Times Magazine is not enough.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at April 24, 2008 10:03 PM