Arguably: Selected EssaysFrom one of the most admired public intellectuals of our time, and a multi-award winning and #1 bestselling author, comes a collection of his most important and controversial essays on the theme of culture and politics and how the two relate. |
Contents
The United States | 3 |
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates | 12 |
Free and Easy | 21 |
The Man Who Ended Slavery | 28 |
Miserys Child | 34 |
American Radical | 40 |
A Capitalist Primer | 47 |
In Sickness and by Stealth | 54 |
As American as Apple Pie | 403 |
So Many Mens Rooms So Little Time | 411 |
In Your Face | 423 |
Charles Prince of Piffle | 429 |
Afghanistans Dangerous Bet | 435 |
First Silence the WhistleBlower | 445 |
Irans Waiting Game | 455 |
Long Live Democratic Seismology | 467 |
The Great Assimilator | 62 |
Hurricane Lolita | 70 |
No | 78 |
Mr Geniality | 85 |
America the Banana Republic | 94 |
An Anglosphere Future རྀ ཎྜ ཋ ཀྲོ ཋ 131 | 108 |
Old Enough to Die | 117 |
In Defense of Foxhole Atheists | 124 |
In Search of the Washington Novel | 131 |
Flaws of Gravity | 139 |
Hilary Mantels | 146 |
Reactionary Prophet | 152 |
Demons and Dictionaries | 165 |
Im with Stupide | 171 |
The Grub Street Years | 180 |
Things Worth Fighting For | 191 |
A Revolutionary Simpleton | 222 |
On Animal Farm | 228 |
Jessica Mitfords Poison Pen | 237 |
The Permanent Adolescent | 250 |
The Honorable Schoolboy | 265 |
An Omnivorous Curiosity | 276 |
Spy Thrillers Father | 290 |
Ill Be Damned | 297 |
Graham Greenes | 308 |
Loving Philip Larkin | 323 |
A Nice Bloody Fool | 332 |
The Captive Mind | 340 |
The Catastrophist | 353 |
From Waugh to Frayn | 365 |
Where the Wild Things Are | 375 |
Why Women Arent Funny | 389 |
The Author Who Played | 397 |
From Abbottabad to Worse | 474 |
The Perils of Partition | 480 |
A French Quarrel | 493 |
Where the Twain Should | 504 |
The Swastika and the Cedar | 513 |
Holiday in Iraq | 519 |
At the Deserts Edge | 526 |
40 | 528 |
What Happened to the Suicide Bombers | 532 |
The Vietnam Syndrome | 541 |
Once Upon a Time in Germany | 548 |
A Nation of Racist Dwarves | 556 |
Hugo Boss | 563 |
Overstating Jewish Power | 569 |
Pictures from an Inquisition | 585 |
One Mans Fate | 595 |
The Zealot | 602 |
The Persian Version | 617 |
Lightness at Midnight | 625 |
Imagining Hitler | 640 |
Survivor | 652 |
A War Worth Fighting | 661 |
Just Give Peace a Chance? | 669 |
When the King Saved God | 687 |
Let Them Eat Pork Rinds | 697 |
Stand Up for Denmark | 704 |
Easter Charade | 719 |
This Was Not Looting | 733 |
Prisoner of Shelves | 748 |
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