Am I a Public Intellectual or Not? (Not me personally, it's just the topic)

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― , Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Milton Friedman is ranking way too highly for my tastes.

― Bitsuh, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i gave michael walzer four for having the nous to be photoed in front of his bookshelves, john rawls three for being a weird painting, christopher hitchens two for being manifestly drunk in the pocture, and camille paglia ten for being photoshopped into a mud-wrassling contest

bob woodward!! fukuyama looks a twat also

― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I gave T. Herman Zwiebel 10, of course.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(B)(N)itsuh, you ARE an intellectual SUPERSTAH!

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am closet moronic freakoid. I got Camille Paglia. I gave her a fiver. Hope she runs off the world and falls down onto Venus never to be heard of again.

― nathalie, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when did bono become a 'public intellectual'?!

― geeta, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know most of these people, so either
a) I am thick
b) They are too (intellectually) indie and will not sell out by appearing on 'The Wright Stuff'.
Therefore I am rating their intellectual standing by their photos.

(and yes I am aware that a) and b) are essentially the same thing)

― DG, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The current top 10 posted on the site: what conclusions can we draw from who's voting?

1. Milton Friedman
2. Paul Krugman
3. V.S. Naipaul
4. Salman Rushdie
5. Wiliam F. Buckley
6. Thomas Sowell
7. Condoleezza Rice
8. Virginia Postrel
9. John Kenneth Galbraith
10. Edward O. Wilson

― geeta, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(I've got my own conspiracy theories on this, but I want to hear yours first.)

― geeta, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't gotten Camille Paglia yet! I keep getting pictures of Martin Amis. And how did Peggy Noonan get a higher rating than Noam Chomsky?

― rosemary, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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