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A wide-ranging collection of essays on the political hysteria plaguing the West by one of our most important public intellectuals
Decades of violence and chaos have produced a political and intellectual hysteria—ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about an Islamic threat to Western civilization—that has affected even the most liberal of American and British writers. 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 to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. With an introduction by Mishra written for this collection, these essays provide a vantage point from which to look seriously at the current crisis.
