Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and EmpireDecades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its fantasists, taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered and become influential. In essays that grapple with colonialism, human rights, and the doubling down of liberalism against a background of faltering economies and weakening Anglo-American hegemony, Mishra confronts writers from Jordan Peterson and Niall Ferguson to Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. With a newly written introduction, these essays provide a vantage point from which to look seriously at the current crisis. |
Contents
Introduction | |
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The Culture of Fear | |
The Religion of Whiteness | |
The Personal as Political | |
The Man of Fourteen Points | |
Bland Fanatics | |
The Age of the Crisis of | |
Why Do White People Like What I Write? | |
The Mask It Wears | |
The Final Religion | |
Bumbling Chumocrats | |
The Economist and Liberalism | |
Englands Last Roar | |
Flailing States | |
Grand Illusions | |
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