It’s Friday again, so I am blogging about a list. Another absurdity I am afraid: “Prospect” and “Foreign Policy” magazines top 100 global brains.

The selection gives little credit to (proper) conservative minds, but that’s hardly a surprise. It is globalizers and hawks all over. Catholic cons might enjoy seeing Pope Benedict XVI’s name in the cerebral pantheon, but otherwise it seems a fairly grim bunch. (Perhaps to make up for putting in the Pope, the compilers have included all the world’s leading atheists)

Still, TAC readers can affect the outcome. Click on the above link to vote for who you think should make the top five. Or maybe just let their silly idea rot.