Terror and Liberalism (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Berman
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: 2003
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Current affairs
- Subjects: Freedom, United States or Americans, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Immortality, Islam, Twenty-first century, Religion, War, Conservatism, Death or dying, Liberalism, Muslims, Terrorism or terrorists, Israel or Israelis, Totalitarianism, East and West, Middle East, Imperialism, Fascism, Jewish-Arab relations, Mass murderers or serial killers, Arabs, Fundamentalism, Iraq or Iraqi people
After the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent so-called war on terrorism, the American political Left was in an uncomfortable position. The United States had been attacked, and many people accepted that the nation had a right to strike back at its adversaries. The Left, however, long suspicious of what it saw as the imperialist tendencies of U.S. foreign policy, lined up with the small but vocal antiwar movement. It was a difficult and unpopular stance to take. One leading figure on the left, journalist Christopher Hitchens,...
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