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Issue 148 July 2008

Intellectuals—the results

prospect

26th July 2008 - Issue 148 Free entry

Over half a million people voted in our poll to find the world's top public intellectual. Of the many voting campaigns that were mounted, only one had a decisive impact on the results

How Gülen triumphed

Tom Nuttall

26th July 2008 - Issue 148 Free entry

Over half a million people voted in our poll. But of the many voting campaigns mounted, only one had a decisive impact

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Issue 146 May 2008

Who are the world's top public intellectuals?

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26th July 2008 - Issue 146

In 2005, Prospect and Foreign Policy asked you to vote for your top global public intellectuals from a longlist of 100. This year we are repeating the exercise, with a new list reflecting the emerging trends in global thought—from US military strategists to Egyptian televangelists

How to be a public intellectual

Christopher Hitchens

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The world's fifth best public intellectual on the uses and abuses of the term

Issue 116 November 2005

Global public intellectuals poll

David Herman

26th July 2008 - Issue 116 Free entry

The Prospect/Foreign Policy list of 100 global public intellectuals suggested that the age of the great oppositional thinker was over, but Noam Chomsky's emphatic victory shows many remain nostalgic for it

The world's top intellectuals

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26th July 2008 - Issue 116

Brief lives of the world's top intellectuals, as selected by the readers of Prospect and Foreign Policy

Issue 101 August 2004

Top intellectuals - the results

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26th July 2008 - Issue 101

In the last issue, we drew up a list of Britain's top 100 public intellectuals and asked readers to vote for their top five, plus a favourite not on the list. Here are the results

Public intellectuals poll

David Herman

26th July 2008 - Issue 101 Free entry

How did 1,000 voters and the media respond to our poll?

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Referee's report

Tom Nuttall

26th July 2008 - Issue 101

How we kept out the vote-riggers

Issue 100 July 2004

Top 100 British intellectuals

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26th July 2008 - Issue 100

To mark the 100th issue of Prospect, we have compiled a list of the top 100 British public intellectuals. In consultation with many of our regular contributors and a wide range of figures across the disciplines and professions, we gathered more than 400 names from science and philoosophy through politics and journalism to arts and culture, and then whittled them down to 100.