It's that time of year when magazines know they can boost their sales by publishing lists that are supposed to encapsulate the year about to pass. God knows what arcane formulas the editors use to come up with their rankings, but whatevere it is, their lists usually reflect the prevailing editorial mindset - aggressively liberal and secular, in the case of the best-known magazines that do this thing regularly - which they want to pass off as the Zeitgeist.
This year, Foreign Policy magazine, published by the Newsweek-Washington Post group, decided to choose the 'top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009', whom you may find here in its Dec. 3 issue
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?p...
and surely Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a George W. Bush appointee, must have been the most surprised man in the world to find himself named #1 "for staving off a new Great Depression', outranking his current boss, the Obama the once-and-future-Messiah himself, #2 "for re-imagining America's role in the world".
Our Benedict XVI is ranked #17 for the most risible of reasons - - even though,yet again, he should be and is sui generis -
NB: The only reason I bother with this list is 'for the record' - and that for a change, they chose a nice picture of the Holy Father.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 03/12/2009 20:48]