Who is wrongly portrayed as a genius?

Wittgenstein

Saul Kripke

Foucault

Duncan Kennedy

Myron Sholes

Anyone involved in mathematical finance

James Joyce

Rothco

Jackson Pollock

John Cage

Any ‘behavioral economist’

Any bull market bullshit artist (e.g. Ivan Boesky, Bernie Madoff, Larry Cohen)

W.V.O. Quine

Ayn Rand

David Mamet

Saul Bellow

Allen Bloom

Christopher Hitchens