Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader, while a religous reader of John Derbyshire’s work, doesn’t often want to comment on his work in this space. Well, that is not the case today. You ought to go and read his column about Intellectuals on National Review Online yesterday.

Very thoughtful stuff. Identifying modern living intellectuals. What is really so sad is that your Maximum Leader could only come up with one that he thought met Derb’s general criteria. (Alive, reasonably well-known, published, etc) The one he came up with was Niall Ferguson. Your Maximum Leader thinks that a case could be made for journalist Christopher Hitchens. But Hitch would be a stretch.

If any minions care to name others, your Maximum Leader’s ears are open.

Carry on.