As Sinclair Lewis noted long ago, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding.” The quote applies to far more than he originally intended. I find watching the evening news more interesting for all they ignore to report rather than...
Lewis is generally considered to be the antidote to the pernicious “postmodernist” Edward Said — between Lewis’s new book and David Pryce-Jones’s The Closed Circle, one can get a pretty good idea of where we’ve been in regards to the Arab world, and possibly some insight into where...