Smart White Guys + Personal PR

There’s a decent discussion on Plastic about a newly released list of the 100 most influential intellectuals. Readers were asked to select their top 5. Here are mine:

• Noam Chomsky

• Richard Dawkins

• Jared Diamond

• Thomas Friedman

• Lawrence Lessig

Admitedly, they’re all white guys, but they hold some diverse views (which the wiki entries can explain far better than I can).

Also, I put up a promotional page for The War Inside (similar to the Ellipsis Mag page). I hadn’t looked at the novel in months, so it was fun to go through and pick out some quotes.