January 18, 2002
Judging Public Intellectuals
John Silber, Toni Morrison, Noam Chomsky. It's no surprise that the Boston University chancellor, the Nobel Prize-winning author, and the linguistics expert all made Richard A. Posner's list of the top 100 public intellectuals.
But where is Harvard University's John Rawls, whose work has shaped contemporary political philosophy? Or Emory University's Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a leading neoconservative critic of women's studies? Such omissions have some critics fuming over Mr. Posner's
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