Fareed Zakaria
Aug. 12th, 2012 12:00 amFareed Zakaria apologized publicly for passing off New Yorker writer Jill Lepore's work as his own in an essay he wrote for Time magazine. Not to put too fine a point on it, Zakaria committed egregious plagiarism, as Alexander Abad-Santos of the Atlantic Wire reported.
-- Jim Sleeper at Huffington Post
That's a bit of a surprise and a disappointment. That piece also linked to another article from "The New Republic" magazine on their list of the most overrated thinkers of 2011, upon which Mr. Zakaria figures prominently.
Though, I don't think we ever understood Zakaria to be a true scholar and public intellectual. He is a bona fide member of the 'official' commentariat who runs a good chat-show table, an opportunity that was probably due as much to his darker skin and non-Western name as much as anything else. No doubt he's a genuine smart guy who can argue 90% of we commoners under the table, but not a leading intellect.
I expect that he will suffer a little spanking on account of this incident, and everything will go back to being business as usual. We cannot really afford to lose Zakaria as one of the prominent faces of the American establishment. He makes us look that much more cosmopolitan.
( A few of those overrated thinkers )
-- Jim Sleeper at Huffington Post
That's a bit of a surprise and a disappointment. That piece also linked to another article from "The New Republic" magazine on their list of the most overrated thinkers of 2011, upon which Mr. Zakaria figures prominently.
Though, I don't think we ever understood Zakaria to be a true scholar and public intellectual. He is a bona fide member of the 'official' commentariat who runs a good chat-show table, an opportunity that was probably due as much to his darker skin and non-Western name as much as anything else. No doubt he's a genuine smart guy who can argue 90% of we commoners under the table, but not a leading intellect.
I expect that he will suffer a little spanking on account of this incident, and everything will go back to being business as usual. We cannot really afford to lose Zakaria as one of the prominent faces of the American establishment. He makes us look that much more cosmopolitan.
( A few of those overrated thinkers )