“FP and Britain’s Prospect magazine asked readers to vote for the top five public intellectuals from [their] Top 100,” and Tyler Cowen says, “Ugh to number one.” From the Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results:
- Noam Chomsky
- Umberto Eco
- Richard Dawkins
- Václav Havel
- Christopher Hitchens
- Paul Krugman
- Jürgen Habermas
- Amartya Sen
- Jared Diamond
- Salman Rushdie
- Naomi Klein
- Shirin Ebadi
- Hernando de Soto
- Bjørn Lomborg
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Thomas Friedman
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Camille Paglia