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Who was the best American intellectual of the 20th century?


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Who was the best American intellectual of the 20th century?
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mah azz
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>American intellectuals
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Albert Einstein
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>>1394114
Gore Vidal
Hunter S. Thompson
William Kristol
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probably kissinger.
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Noam Chomsky
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>>1394114
Murray Rothbard
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>>1394170
>>1394179
>>>/tumblr/
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Fethullah Gulen He wants to bring peace and harmony to the world. We all feed him love.
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Nobody wrote it yet. So I will do it for fun before /pol/acks write it.
Adolf Hitler
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Feynman or Einstein.
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>>1394114

John Dewey, obvs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
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>>1395919
He's not American idiot.
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>>1394114

Jared Taylor
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> American
> intellectual
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Probably Friedman
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>>1394114
It's clearly Ayn Rand. Anyone else who says otherwise is being mislead or is purposely fabricating lies.
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>American
>intellectual

I don't know, maybe William F. Buckley?
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>>1394114
John Dewey. Knowing and the Known is an excellent book
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Quine
Kripke
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>>1394191
David Friedman is better.
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>>1397544
I've never read this book actually, but it has a lot of fans on the internet, so it probably sucks.
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>>1397264
Neither is Einstein and yet people wrote him
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>>1397264
could've fooled me
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Richard Nixon
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Chicago school folks

Or that cunt Rawls if you're into that shit
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>>1394170
Not worst war criminal
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Erick "the nihilist" and Dylan "the existencialist".
Unbeated 13-0.
15-0 if you count themselfs.
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>>1397862
American citizen.
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>>1397544
Objectivism is for teenagers
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Richard Dawkins
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>>1399747
True
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Me
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>>1399785
I know we're supposed to hate him but gene-centered view of evolution+memetics actually does make him a pretty significant figure. Also his atheism advocacy has been pretty influential, even though it's dumb.
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