John McWhorter

1 Andrew Sullivan, Richard Freeman 2 Chris Beam, Gary Rosen 3 Gov. Mike Huckabee, Matt Taibbi 4 Norman Ornstein, Muhammad Yunus 5 Neil Shubin 6 Peter Hopkins, Jared Cohen 7 Deborah Tannen 8 Lou Dobbs, David Levy 9 Allan Sloan, Eric Weiner 10 Malcolm Gladwell, Andrew Young 11 Stephen Colbert's Sport Report 12 Debra Dickerson, Charles Nesson 13 Marjane Satrapi, Rick Warren 14 Joe Quesada, Alex Ross 15 Carl Hiaasen, Frans de Waal 16 Tim Harford, Andrew Napolitano 17 Tony Campolo, Jacob Weisberg 18 Angelo Falcon, Bob Dole 19 Richard Brookhiser, Tad Devine 20 Mark Moffett 21 Aubrey de Grey, Philip Zimbardo 22 Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Lisa Randall 23 David Gracer, Richard Thompson Ford 24 John Feinstein, Leonard Nimoy 25 Henry Louis Gates Jr. 26 Tony Snow 27 Richard Brookhiser, Ingrid Newkirk 28 Lorin Maazel, Shashi Tharoor 29 William Donohue, Howard Dean, Jennifer 8. Lee 30 Robert Reich, Gregory Rodriguez 31 John Legend 32 George McGovern 33 Geraldo Rivera 34 Howard Kurtz 35 Hussein Ibish, Sudhir Venkatesh 36 Samantha Power 37 Carole King 38 Dee Dee Myers 39 Dean Kamen 40 Eric Alterman, Michael Reynolds 41 Van Jones 42 R.E.M. 43 Clay Shirky 44 Trevor Paglen, Jesse Ventura 45 Madeline Albright 46 Jeff Gore 47 Robin Wright 48 John Legend, Mayor Michael Nutter, Chris Matthews 49 Michelle Obama, The Roots 50 Philadelphia Eagles Cheerleaders, Gov. Ed Rendell 51 Hillary Clinton, Patrick Murphy, John Edwards, Barack Obama 52 Fr. James Martin, Sen. Bernie Sanders 53 Susan Jacoby 54 Mitch Albom 55 Maria Shriver 56 Feist 57 Anne Lamott 58 Donna Brazile, Noah Feldman 59 James Kunstler 60 Carl Hiaasen 61 Nathan Gunn 62 Hasan Elahi, George Johnson 63 Arianna Huffington 64 Dr. Mehmet Oz 65 Jennifer Hooper McCarty 66 Laura Dern, Grover Norquist 67 Andrei Cherny 68 Tony Perkins, Brian Greene 69 Sen. Claire McCaskill 70 Tad Devine, David Sirota 71 Jon Paskowitz 72 George Will 73 Rep. Bob Barr, Salman Rushdie 74 Pat Buchanan 75 Phil Weiss 76 Alan Rabinowitz 77 David Hajdu 78 Winona LaDuke, Dixon Despommier 79 Kenneth Miller 80 Neal Katyal, Jonathan Zittrain 81 Uma Mysorekar, Junot Díaz / Lexicon Artist 82 Bishop N.T. Wright 83 Barbara Ehrenreich 84 Jason Bond, Will Smith 85 Paul Goldberger, Neil deGrasse Tyson 86 Rep. Robert Wexler 87 Lama Surya Das, Daniel C. Esty 88 Julia E. Sweig, Jason Riley 89 Rush 90 Elizabeth Edwards 91 Sen. Jim Webb 92 Lucas Conley 93 Nas 94 Laurie Goodstein, Garrett Reisman 95 Toby Keith 96 Eric Roston 97 Crosby, Stills & Nash 98 Buzz Aldrin 99 Lucas Conley, The Apples in Stereo 100 David Carr 101 Jason Bond, Kevin Costner 102 Devin Gordon, Thomas Frank 103 Jorge Ramos 104 Joey Cheek, Jane Mayer 105 Dick Meyer 106 Bing West 107 Rep. Bob Barr, Scott McClellan 108 Gov. Mike Huckabee 109 Richard Brookhiser 110 John McWhorter 111 Laura D'Andrea Tyson 112 Doris Kearns Goodwin 113 Adam Brickley, Ron Paul 114 Gov. David Paterson 115 Peter J. Gomes 116 Tyson Slocum, Rick Reilly 117 Robert Lutz 118 Maria Bartiromo 119 Jackson Browne 120 Joe Nocera, Cornel West 121 Nick Carr 122 Paul Begala 123 James Taylor 124 Dave Levin 125 Stephen Greenblatt, Naomi Klein 126 Jim Cramer 127 Nate Silver 128 Joe Scarborough 129 David Gergen, Oliver Stone 130 Bethany McLean, Kathleen Parker 131 Joseph Stiglitz 132 Shai Agassi 133 Brent Glass, Robert Greenwald 134 Fareed Zakaria, Wynton Marsalis 135 Michael Farris 136 David Frum 137 Jonathan Alter 138 Yo-Yo Ma 139 Brian Moore, Sherman Alexie 140 David Simon 141 Wilco 142 Charlie Cook, Andrew Sullivan 143 Indecision 2008: America's Choice 144 Ambassador Andrew Young 145 Rachel Maddow 146 Dan Savage, Kevin Johnson 147 Bob Woodward 148 Stephen Moore 149 Malcom Gladwell 150 Paul Simon 151 Michael Lewis 152 Cory Booker, Thomas L. Friedman 153 Khaled Hosseini, Roland Fryer 154 Jeffrey Goldberg 155 Barbara Walters 156 Sen. Bob Graham, Nicholas Wade 157 Geoffrey Canada 158 Kevin Bacon, Charlie Kaufman 159 Richard Haass 160 Michael Phelps