Zakaria "may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West," wrote David Shribman in "The Boston Globe". In 2003, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told "New York Magazine" that Zakaria "has a first-class mind and likes to say things that run against conventional wisdom." However, in 2011, the editors of "The New Republic" included him in a list of "over-rated thinkers" and commented, "There's something suspicious about a thinker always so perfectly in tune with the moment."