Thursday, December 04, 2014

A Leading Global Thinker

Every year Foreign Policy issues a list of the 100 most important global thinkers. This year they have grouped them into categories: agitators, decision makers, challengers, naturals, innovators, advocates, chroniclers, healers, artists and moguls. Many of those listed I have never heard of. Two I and, very likely you if you read this blog, have heard of are Putin (an agitator) and John Oliver (a chronicler).

Oliver is cited as being a modern day raconteur telling people what they need to know. He does it through what Foreign Policy calls investigative comedy. But Oliver says, "It's comedy first, and it's comedy second

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