The Revenge of the Eustonians; or Benda It Like Berman
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
6:49 AM
Labels: benda , Decent Left , historians as public intellectuals , Iraq war , neoconservatism , trahison des clercs
Labels: benda , Decent Left , historians as public intellectuals , Iraq war , neoconservatism , trahison des clercs
This Sunday, the New York Times Book Review featured a glowing assessment by Anthony Julius of Paul Berman's new book, The Flight of the Intellectuals, which angrily accuses Western left-wing intellectuals of embracing the Oxford University Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan while failing to come to the defense of the Somali-Dutch refugee and American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Ayaan Hirsi
