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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West, and the Afterlives of Empire
Maybe someday
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Readers
32/100Critics
17/100Scholars
90/100Author:
Pankaj Mishra
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
October 6, 2020
A collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West, that grapple with the meaning and content of Anglo-American liberalism and its relations with colonialism, the global South, Islam, and "humanitarian" war.
What The Reviewers Say
Bland Fanatics remains timely, addressing an issue that consumes us: race.
Bland Fanatics has its pleasures.
[Bland Fanatics] lays out the case in essays dating back to 2008. Reading them now, while trapped in an apartment surrounded by strategic reserves of canned food and toilet paper, it’s hard not to think: You know, he might have had a point..
With chapters telling different aspects of this story across numerous regions and historical eras, Mishra supplies readers with material to construct an alternative to the liberal Grand Narrative.
