Today's fun list is Prospect's ranking of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world. Chomsky is at the top, although, really, shouldn't the obvious choice be Vaclav Havel? More weirdness: Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn, Cornell West, and Harold Bloom weren't even on the short list, apparently, but Elaine Scarry was—even though Scarry's major qualification, it seems, is her goofy theory about airplane crashes. And where the *$%& is Mailer?