Wotsisname, the world’s No 1 genius
He has been voted the greatest intellectual, but few know who he is, writes Deirdre Fernand
Chomsky, the leading American intellectual and academic, has a curious first name. What is it? a) Noam b) Noah c) Haven’t a clue If you answered a), good for you. You are exactly the type of sophisticated, educated reader that Prospect, a leading magazine of intellectual ideas, wants to cultivate. If, however, you answered c), you may want to turn straight away to The Funday Times.
In a poll conducted last month by Prospect in conjunction with an American magazine, Foreign Policy, Noam Chomsky was declared No 1 Global Public Intellectual. Drawn from a list of 100 noted thinkers, politicians and philosophers, he beat such luminaries as Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, the conservative American political thinker Francis Fukuyama and our own Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm. The results will be announced in the November issue, published this week.
The Sunday Times Review
Chomsky, the leading American intellectual and academic, has a curious first name. What is it? a) Noam b) Noah c) Haven’t a clue If you answered a), good for you. You are exactly the type of sophisticated, educated reader that Prospect, a leading magazine of intellectual ideas, wants to cultivate. If, however, you answered c), you may want to turn straight away to The Funday Times.
In a poll conducted last month by Prospect in conjunction with an American magazine, Foreign Policy, Noam Chomsky was declared No 1 Global Public Intellectual. Drawn from a list of 100 noted thinkers, politicians and philosophers, he beat such luminaries as Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, the conservative American political thinker Francis Fukuyama and our own Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm. The results will be announced in the November issue, published this week.
The Sunday Times Review
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