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Inside This e-Alert: Cast Your Vote for the Top Public Intellectuals
Who are the world’s leading public intellectuals? FP and Britain’s Prospect magazine are seeking to put the public back into “public intellectual.” We’ve selected our top 100—which includes the likes of Umberto Eco, Paul Krugman, and Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani—but we want you to vote for your top five. If you don’t see a name that you think deserves top honors, include him or her as a write-in candidate. Voting closes October 10.
In the debate over Iraq, few figures argue with more passion than pro-war writer Christopher Hitchens and the anti-war British Member of Parliament George Galloway. In this heated exchange, the two polemicists lock horns on the morality and wisdom of the mission in Iraq.
Saudi officials and many analysts predict oil production will increase to meet growing demand. Not so, says Matthew Simmons, an energy-industry banker. A leading voice warning of “peak oil”—the idea that world oil output will soon drop off—Simmons says a look at the data reveals that we should start preparing for a life without black gold.
By Benjamin K. Sovacool
With demand for energy soaring along with oil prices, even committed greens are warming to nuclear energy as an emissions-free way to generate power. Unfortunately, nuclear power won’t solve our energy problem—and it isn’t as eco-friendly as you think.
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Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen
It takes only weeks for a diamond, once uncovered in an African mine, to travel to India to be cut and polished and land in the showrooms of Paris or New York. FP’s inaugural photo essay reveals some of globalization’s greatest fault lines—inequality, child labor, and outsourcing—and the people who too often fall through the cracks.
Panama offered bananas. Tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka pledged $25,000. Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates each pledged $100 million. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, these are just a few examples of the overwhelming—and sometimes surprising—generosity of more than 90 countries around the world. Herewith, FP’s full list of who is giving what.
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Washington Post
Michael Bérubé argues that there is a trend toward “publicity intellectuals” who function more or less as brand names, endorsing various lines of products that are actually manufactured by research assistants.
Slate
Timothy Noah looks at the data used in Richard Posner’s Public Intellectuals: A Study in Decline.
The Nation
An exchange adapted from a gathering of intellectuals, including Steven Carter, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Steven Johnson.
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