Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.23.08 | 3:54 PM ET
Foreign Policy has released the results of its poll. Coming in at number four: Turkish writer and Istanbul memoirist Orhan Pamuk.
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HS 06.24.08 | 12:52 AM ET
Uh, I just took a look at that list, and noticed that the first 15 or so people are all Middle Eastern Muslims or something similar. The only exceptions are Noam Chomsky (predictable) and a few others. This says a lot about the people who cast ballots, but also about FP. Why didn’t they publish a more, well, diverse list?
Jim Benning 06.24.08 | 4:49 PM ET
Indeed, HS. There’s a good discussion on just that here:
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9097