Global Thinkers...my potato

Amer sent me this list from FP for amusement. He asked me try to read it without laughing. It is not possible. You may try that yourselves. I mean, you will read the list of names and laugh, one by one. When you read that Hirsi Ali, for example, is a "global thinker" or that Thomas Friedman is one of the top "global thinkers", you will be mightily amused. In fact, I thought a good test of this list is this: would you be able to agree on 10 choices out of 100 lousy choices? Difficult, I found. This shows you how seriously you can take "intellectual" publications, and it shows you that the lines between popular entertainment magazines and "intellectual" publications have been blurred, big time.