Monday, December 03, 2012

Global Thinkers? Really?

Foreign Policy has published their annual list of 'global thinkers'.  These are people who have had Big Ideas, ideas that change the world, wage ever-more complicated intellectual battles.   Would you believe that these are some of the global thinkers: Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Dick and Liz Cheney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Paul Bernanke, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleeza Rice, Charles Murray, Robert Kagan, Rand Paul, Eliot Cohen?  The magazine has a very different view of global thinkers than I would have expected.  It's more a list of famous people.
 

1 comment:

R J Adams said...

Right-wing war mongers, dubious politicians, and a sprinkling of hard-boiled business tycoons. Nary a philosopher among them.