Who are the most important thinkers right now?

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Anonymous wrote:Jon Stewart

Please

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Elon Musk

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Anonymous wrote:Jordan Peterson

+1

Maybe for low IQ folks because he is the king of injecting opinion as fact. He popular with dumb people who have never taken a philosophy class.

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Anonymous wrote:Ta-nehisi Coates

+1

And I would add Matthew Desmond.

I love Matthew Desmond.

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Anonymous wrote:Jordan Peterson

+1

Maybe for low IQ folks because he is the king of injecting opinion as fact. He popular with dumb people who have never taken a philosophy class.

He's the definition of a crackpot.

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Anonymous wrote:Ta-nehisi Coates

Seriously? He is neither important nor much of a thinker.

Not that poster but he is a beautiful writer.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for people who are well-known in popular culture or those who are influencing academics and scholars (and therefore whose ideas trickle down into academia and slowly into society) but who otherwise have no name recognition among the general populace?

OP here. The latter.

I would say the ideas of these people are consumed by and influence the people more known in general. For a crude example, it would be the people who initially conceived of modern monetary theory rather than the politicians who espouse it.

Those people are probably the ones winning Nobel prizes in economics and such.

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Roxane Gay

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Heather cox Richardson.

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Anonymous wrote:Ezra Klein

No. Eyeroll.

Oh my goodness. So absolutely NO.

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Michael Harriot

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Anonymous wrote:Ta-nehisi Coates

Seriously? He is neither important nor much of a thinker.

Not that poster but he is a beautiful writer.

He tries too hard to be Baldwin. He is not Baldwin. The over-wrought, faux belletristic style becomes grating after a while.

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Anonymous wrote:Heather cox Richardson.

Yes!

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Anonymous wrote:Ta-nehisi Coates

Yes!!

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Anonymous wrote:Jordan Peterson

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Maybe for low IQ folks because he is the king of injecting opinion as fact. He popular with dumb people who have never taken a philosophy class.

He's the definition of a crackpot.

That's what they said about Galileo.

I don't even like him, but I also think Jordan Peterson has staying power